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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (3189)1/10/2006 3:11:24 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 219525
 
<The only way _mean_ intelligence can increase is by selection. There are no significant selection pressures on the human species in this phase of our evolution.>

I'm finding this boring too Gib. Let's just leave it as you say, that there's no selection pressure and women don't select men according to intelligence. Guys get any girl they like.

Even at IQ 50, 60, 70, guys can get a girl to bear their children. It's purely random these days, with no selection pressures. The Flynn Effect is something we should just ignore.

Right, that's dealt with.

Onward,
Mq

PS: You must have only read part of the amazing Mq Theory on the Evolution and Selection of Human Intelligence <If anything, according to your own beliefs there should be a lowering of the mean, a slight effect resulting from the tendency of the wealthier (and according you, more intelligent) to have fewer offspring. > Detailed study of my theory will show that I really think that guys in the low IQ department have trouble finding somebody to propagate their DNA. With them going missing every generation [and don't forget the Darwin Awards], there is distinct upward pressure in intelligence.

Over and out.
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