Unlock Economic Success: National IQ, Liberality, and Optomism

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Unless you advocate

Nature abides.

 

[loseyourname]

Nature abides.

What the heck are you talking about, beaver boy? Nature abides what? Are you saying that our economy will be fine because nature will select out people with low intelligence? Now you'll need to show me some correlation between SES and reproductive success. You're great at cutting and pasting, but when you put things into your own words, you're as vague as a magic 8-ball.

 

[loseyourname]

By the way, would you mind sharing an account if you want anyone to actually read the links you keep posting? No way I'm paying for something I barely care about.

 

[hitssquad]

Nature abides technology

Priests and politicians demand that technology (the fruit of science) be helpful. Nature abides.

Nature abides what?

Technology. Nature does not care what you do with it.

Are you saying that our economy will be fine because nature will select out people with low intelligence?

Currently, nature is longitudinally deselecting both populations and subpopulations with high g. This condition is known as dysgenics and its recent trends are documented in a recent book of the same name by Richard Lynn:
http://www.eugenics.net/papers/lynnrev.html

The economy of the United States may suffer.

Now you'll need to show me some correlation between SES and reproductive success.

There is currently a correlation worldwide and within most nations, but it is negative. Lynn, above, has numbers documenting the trend. Jensen, quoting from Vining, also has some numbers:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/e-l/message/12756

The real problem is that the large number of persons with IQ's less than 30 points above the average are having fewer children than the equally large number of persons with IQ's less than 30 points below the average. Together, these two groups are almost 96% of the population. 70% of the population have IQ's between 85 and 115. Vining's study in 1978 found the highest white birthrates in women with IQ's of 86-100, or less than 1 SD below the mean (see Jensen, _g factor_, p. 485). Black women were most fertile with IQ's of 71 and below, or more than 1 SD below the Afro-American mean. Unfortunately, I haven't run across similar data for men, but it is commonly said that the poorest men have the least reproductive success, and presumably this population includes the great majority of the mildly retarded. Criminals are reported to have exceptionally high birthrates, but criminals tend to be of moderately low intelligence; they are typically not morons.

~Alypius

 

[loseyourname]

Technology. Nature does not care what you do with it.

Okay, we're beginning to get somewhere hear. Nature abides technology. Now what definition of the word "abide" are you using? Nature waits for technology? Nature puts up with technology? Nature tolerates technology? And technology has what to do with the national IQ?

Currently, nature is longitudinally deselecting both populations and subpopulations with high g. This condition is known as dysgenics and its recent trends are documented in a recent book of the same name by Richard Lynn:
http://www.eugenics.net/papers/lynnrev.html

That's about what I expected.

The economy of the United States may suffer.

I doubt it. There has been a constant influx of poverty since the inception of this nation, yet the economy has always improved.

 

[hitssquad]

Draining brains out

Technology. Nature does not care what you do with it.

Now what definition of the word "abide" are you using?

"To endure or bear patiently," as in the book Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. You said that that technology cannot be useful "unless you advocate [particular avenue x]." Nature does not care what you do with technology.

And technology has what to do with the national IQ?

The findings of science are fruits, employable technologies. The finding that IQ is the single most powerful explanatory variable in the world today in terms of differences between nations in per capita GDP constitutes a technology. You said that that technology cannot be useful "unless you advocate [particular avenue x]." But nature abides.

There has been a constant influx of poverty since the inception of this nation, yet the economy has always improved.

There has been a historic influx of settlers and immigrants with high IQs. This is called brain drain. (Apparently because of its liberal political atmosphere and liberal economics) the U.S. drained brains from other nations. Currently, and notoriously, Russia is having its brains drained out.