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For physical excellence, we have a literal competition around the world comparing our most physically fit specimens against each other to determine how they ran
by hanselot 4y ago
For physical excellence, we have a literal competition around the world comparing our most physically fit specimens against each other to determine how they rank against each other. I could draw some interesting conclusions based on simply analyzing that data alone.
For intellectual excellence we could look towards chess tournaments and Olympiads as some of the forms of data available for analysis, drawing similar conclusions as we do from the physical excellence observations.
One could say that those are both secondary sources of information, where direct genetic sequencing could be seen as a primary source of information.
It would of course be wonderful to be able to say with certainty, our most advanced intellectuals have concluded that our findings based on secondary sources correlate with our findings from primary sources, and additionally have made their findings public to allow for scrutiny - but of course, who would want to do that, when its much easier to handwave away any attempt to draw conclusions as racist or biased.
Somewhere out there is a person with the genes to unlock biological immortality, but sure, lets block access for researchers because their public (scrutinizable) results are biased, or based on biased data.
Btw, there is no unbiased data in the world, should we cancel all science?