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People have such weird attitudes to IQ. Either denial of it's significance or hope to improve it by applying the right life experiences. It all seems based arou
by lopmotr 6y ago
People have such weird attitudes to IQ. Either denial of it's significance or hope to improve it by applying the right life experiences. It all seems based around the fear of the possibility that some of us really are born inferior and doomed to a worse life than others.
But we are. By far the easiest way to improve a child's IQ is to select parents with high IQ. But nobody wants to deselect themselves so wanting a high IQ child goes against the instinct of wanting to reproduce for most people and they're stuck in a cognitive dissonance.
We can reduce it through neglect and trauma but there's no known lasting way to enhance it beyond the natural limit each person is born with.
How about just accept that we're not all born equal? Nobody worries that a dog is less intelligent than a person but we still have pet dogs and happily accept their limitations.