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So intelligence is the only positive attribute selected for? Nature hasnt imprinted anything else worth preserving?

• nnq 14y ago
  Intelligence, self-control, being able to motivate yourself, "productive imagination" etc. ...actually the self control ability has been proven to be better correlated with financial and social success than IQ! Even successful artists do pretty well financially in an "evolved" society (the only context where I would find such a soc-eng strategy applicable anyway). (and even to become something like a researcher and university professor you need much more than high IQ)
  • aswanson 14y ago
    Id argue that college and the guilded trades (law, medicine )by have a net dysgenic influence in terms of propagating iq genes. They cause a great deal of delay in reproduction for the higher iq strata. Ofttimes, they don't reproduce at all, especially the females.
    • Morg 14y ago
      That's a myth. There are no high IQ females. Jokes aside, show me those high IQ babes, I'll fertilize them alright. And seriously, medicine and law are not the "intelligent" studies, law is masturbation and medicine is applied biology so ... really not the smartest aspect of the human race, as much as I respect medics and hate lawyers.