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Though not a measure of IQ, the USA used to require landownership as the litmus test for voting. It might be a similar enough metric.
by pard68 3y ago
Though not a measure of IQ, the USA used to require landownership as the litmus test for voting. It might be a similar enough metric.
- elmerfud 3y agoNot a valid comparison. Imagine, if you will, a world with no income tax, no sales tax, because those things were very difficult (if not impossible) to reliably know. Instead what you could know is real estate ownership, because that was tracked by the government. Then you also had a new country that was frustrated with taxation without representation. So you form those who represent the country as those who pay taxes. The availability of land in those days it was easy enough for anyone who wanted to get it. It was also a way to turn a citizen in to a tax payer. Equating this to IQ is similar in the same way that ice cubes and electrical arcs are the same.