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Eugenicists are out of date. The reason successful people have successful kids is due to enriched environments and increased opportunity. The field of psycholo

Eugenicists are out of date. The reason successful people have successful kids is due to enriched environments and increased opportunity. The field of psychology can't even agree on a definition of intelligence anymore, and certainly IQ is not genetically determined. The environment is the biggest influence on IQ. Harvard kids fucking Harvard kids doesn't create genetic supermen. It just creates an inbred aristocracy like has always been the case. Hemophilia is the true achievement of eugenics. The wise know, and always have known, that it is education and drive that makes a person. Genes play little role in success.

knieveltech 15y ago
Drive moreso than education. My Grandfather has a 5th grade education, worked the trades his entire life, repaired heavy equipment in his spare time, raised seven (7!!!) children and his net worth is somewhere in the millions. Drive.
- forensic 15y ago
  He probably self-educated though. Which is really the only kind of education there is.
VladRussian 15y ago
>Eugenicists are out of date. just a statement of fashion. >The field of psychology can't even agree on a definition of intelligence anymore, and certainly IQ is not genetically determined. The environment is the biggest influence on IQ. The fallacy of nurture vs. nature as if one can be a substitute for another. Their respective roles are well known and each of them is a factor and not any of them is "the biggest influence" vs. the other. And about importance of the biological factors - i'd recommend reading on Einstein's brain, which was smaller, yet more densely packed and with higher ratio of energy supplying cells. >Harvard kids fucking Harvard kids doesn't create genetic supermen. It just creates an inbred aristocracy like has always been the case. Hemophilia is the true achievement of eugenics. Tell that to those several thousands who took over the world from other human species without much interbreeding with them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans#Exodus_from_Africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern...

knieveltech 15y ago

Drive moreso than education. My Grandfather has a 5th grade education, worked the trades his entire life, repaired heavy equipment in his spare time, raised seven (7!!!) children and his net worth is somewhere in the millions. Drive.

forensic 15y ago
He probably self-educated though. Which is really the only kind of education there is.

VladRussian 15y ago

>Eugenicists are out of date. just a statement of fashion. >The field of psychology can't even agree on a definition of intelligence anymore, and certainly IQ is not genetically determined. The environment is the biggest influence on IQ. The fallacy of nurture vs. nature as if one can be a substitute for another. Their respective roles are well known and each of them is a factor and not any of them is "the biggest influence" vs. the other. And about importance of the biological factors - i'd recommend reading on Einstein's brain, which was smaller, yet more densely packed and with higher ratio of energy supplying cells. >Harvard kids fucking Harvard kids doesn't create genetic supermen. It just creates an inbred aristocracy like has always been the case. Hemophilia is the true achievement of eugenics. Tell that to those several thousands who took over the world from other human species without much interbreeding with them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans#Exodus_from_Africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern...