> Examples include universal preschool and the like. Accepting the reality of IQ would assist in eliminating ineffective programs and allocating capital more ef

> Examples include universal preschool and the like. Accepting the reality of IQ would assist in eliminating ineffective programs and allocating capital more effectively. This assertion is rather indicative of the social attitudes that are paired with IQ-obsessed worldviews. Western societies might attempt to equalize opportunity based on the belief in the equality of outcomes now, but these sorts of programs were effected long ago on the basis of egalitarian ideals that sprang from the Enlightenment. Even if IQ revealed any such "biotruths" (which would be debated to the end of time anyway), it would not reverse centuries of Western thought which is based on equal opportunity. In short, this view completely misunderstands how Western society actually responds to differing abilities between people. It's akin to supposing that society would tear down wheelchair ramps in order to allocate resources to those who can walk unassisted. It's not even how many non-Western societies handle inequality among populations. China has had preferential treatment to ethnic minorities even back in imperial times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_China And India, even back to the days of the Raj: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India > incorrect understanding of the causes behind achievement gaps provides onramps to corrupt political participants who take advantage of the basic logical fallacy that "false statements can imply anything" to redirect funding and attention away from pressing issues. It's quite naive of you to suppose that any pseudoscientific evidence to the contrary wouldn't still be used to support those positions. If anything, in the hypothetical world where differences were shown to be immutable from birth, it would only strengthen the call to allocate resources to those who are less fortunate. It might normalize such a position in perpetuity, as it would then become a problem born not only of recent centuries of exploitation, but evolutionary timescales. Beware your faith in biotruths, for they can be just as easily weaponized against you. > AI research will ultimately force us to accept IQ as largely genetic. A non sequitur as confidently stated as it is vapid. One could say an AI wrote it, but ChatGPT is at least smart enough to hedge its bets.