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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44879)10/26/2003 9:50:19 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 50167
 
Hi IQBAL LATIF; Re: "Such a temporary technological or artistic chain reaction can take place even during a period when the general intelligence level of a society is declining due to population shifts, such as the influx of large numbers of less intelligent persons, or due to the percentage increase of a less intelligent sector of a society due to the disproportional replication of members of such groups."

My observation of the human species is that intelligence is fairly equally distributed among the various corners of the globe. Human intelligence steadily increases over the decades without any change to the genome. And for that matter, when large numbers of Jews immigrated to the US about 100 years ago, there was substantial complaint that the new immigrants were hopelessly stupid. The same was said of pretty much every ethnic group.

One of the characteristics of lasting empires, like the British and Roman, is that they tend to accept foreigners and convert them to their own way of life. The US has been spectacularly successful at that. One of our secrets has been to reject notions of intellectual differences depending on genetics. Even if it were scientifically proved, we would reject it because it is inconvenient to our way of life. And I believe that any such scientific proof will also come with an admittance that the differences between the averages will be far less than the individual variance.

-- Carl
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