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How to Raise the world’s IQ
- cratermoon 2y agothe subtitle is "Simple ways to make the next generation more intelligent". So which is it? Raising IQ or making them more intelligent?
- m463 2y agoIt has to be "Simple ways to make the next generation more intelligent"... Can't really "raise the IQ" because it's defined: "For modern IQ tests, the raw score is transformed to a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. This results in approximately two-thirds of the population scoring between IQ 85 and IQ 115 and about 2 percent each above 130 and below 70." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
- reify 2y agowritten by all those clever, know it all, bastards at the economist looking down their noses at the rest of the world.
- voidUpdate 2y agoRaising the world's IQ, as in the average over the entire planet, is very difficult, given that 100 IQ is defined to be the average
- anovikov 2y agoWhy do you want to do it in the first place? It will make accumulation of capital and making profits overall harder, will increase the amount of government violence necessary to maintain order (smarter people are harder to bullshit into obedience through TV -> they will have to be imprisoned, tortured, and killed). Will make the world overall worse. The elite is smart and educated well that's enough.