Humans Came Close to Extinction
A new hypothesis about recent human evolution suggests that we came very close to extinction because of a "volcanic winter" that occurred 71,000 years ago.
Some scientists estimate that there may have been as few as 15,000 humans alive at one time.
The...
There wasn't a large episode that caused a mass extinction for Neanderthals like it happened for the dinosaurs. At one point Neanderthals had higher mortality rates than birth rates which continued generation after generation that slowly but surely they disappeared off the face of the Earth...
Not necessarily. There have been current successful studies of AI allowing robots to learn on their own. Gain new knowledge through trial and error like humans and animals do.
Definitely.
They do far more than that. Research after research showed high levels of correlation between IQ and numerous factors. Including academic success. Economical success. Probability of going to prison. Probability of a happy marriage. Probability of having a illegitimate child. Probability of being...
Not necessarily. And all the answers? Only if you preprogram the computer to know the answers in advance. I'm not quite sure how well any computer currently will do in solving a random IQ question but I would guess not that well.
Correct.
Yes robots can be more intelligent than men...
You're going to state that I'm incorrect? Read this thread for a deeper evaluation on this topic.
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=40646&page=2
I am quite aware of the acheivements of the Neanderthals. They have made several advances but not near as far as modern homosapiens. But that does not necessarily portray them as less intelligent. Any more so than the fact that most technological advances coming out of Europe instantly qualifies...
This does not answer my question. This has never been peer reviewed nor do I expect it would ever appear in Intelligence.
Really? So you're stating one will have a difficult time determining which is more intelligence. Dolphins or flies. Wolves or salmon.
Perhaps a little common sense...
Also it seems as though your major issue with the Bell Curve, etc is the W-B IQ gap. And you tried to state that there are more scientists against the Bell Curve than for it, which is completely false and the opposite is true. The Synderman Poll showed there was a 3 to 1 ratio among those in the...
Do you even know WHY Rushton was investigated for hate crime? Simply for the work he does in his field. You might not realize this but Canada does not have freedom of speech like America does. It is to note the investigation has been completely abandoned.
Hate Crime Laws by Professor Rushton...
That is a rather poor analogy. Unless you can show that scientists are making up a brain to their own specifications and defining g however they want it and then comparing. But doing a random correlation comparison, which the cranial size to IQ is, you cannot manipulate it the way you did. It's...
You should know as well as anyone that funding for scientific researches are hard to come by. The Pioneer Fund is an organization specifically dedicated and willing to fund researches to this field. Why would any scientist turn down a fund? Racist or not. It doesn't make it any more closely...
You see this? See this is the difference between you and real scientists. Actual scientists do not expect their opponents to do their research. If you wanted to find out where Cattell did his research, why would you ask your opponent instead of finding out yourself? Now I trust you've read many...
This is ALL Nereid ever does for something that she has the inability to disprove. The infamous watermelon tactic as shown here:
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=207833&highlight=watermelon#post207833
The silly Pionner Fund argument again. Last resort when failing to argue against the facts.
He stated no such thing. He implied that most that tend to argue against g, the Bell Curve, etc tend not to be experts in the field which happens to be true.
False. After all the name calling and...