Of course not. I find that a silly question because only an idiot would think that. What we are talking about is a general messy idea to begin with, because we really don't know how the mind works or its capabilities, but he is doing the best he can to explain the increasing sophistication of our species in general due to education.
That is the thesis and what is most important. It seems to me you are not zeroing in on that and are off into the weeds :)>.
He is talking about a specific idea of humans generally getting much smarter in the last 120 years because they learned to think abstractly. Any perceived population differences must be seen in the context of the variety of genes and intellectual variations, but not smarter or less smart, just different, across the entire human species.
BUT generally speaking, and the most important thing, is our getting so much smarter because of education.
It works like this, IMO, we are hardwired for certain things like pattern recognition, which is a concrete function, but are capable of abstract thought like probability, and physics and existentialism, but it is hard for us to learn it, but we can.
And when we did learn over the last 120 years, we got 60 IQ points smarter (based on some statistics) . We were pretty dumb in the early 1800's allowing slavery to continue for so long. or women not getting to vote, or segregation. That is all dumb concrete thinking in action.
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