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http://www.livescience.com/17918-humans-intelligent.html
Originally posted by twhiteheadI read the link. I cannot wait until the day when everybody's (or at least those people who value intelligence ) IQ is artificially increased to 200 or more. I strongly suspect it would reduce crime by more than half (most crime is from general stupidity ofter all ) and end most albeit not all religious nonsense.
Merely providing good nutrition and education significantly increases both intelligence and IQ scores. Much of the world has already seen dramatic increases and the poorer parts will follow shortly as their economies and education systems improve.
Originally posted by humyWhat if they thought the other way,... would you believe them?
I read the link. I cannot wait until the day when everybody's (or at least those people who value intelligence ) IQ is artificially increased to 200 or more. I strongly suspect it would reduce crime by more than half (most crime is from general stupidity ofter all ) and end most albeit not all religious nonsense.
I only wish it would happen in my life time.
...[text shortened]... d effortlessly move on to more advanced understanding of physics; -the really interesting stuff!
Originally posted by humyWell, I would be as happy as a pig in poop if the average was 200 as opposed to 100 today. Of course with the average being 200 the new number would be an average in itself so that would have to be redefined as being the new 100. Then, like me, clocking in around 140, would be say, 70, in that world. I would have to have special ed just to survive🙂
About religion? no. My atheism comes from my own reasoning, not other people's, no matter how smart they are in other respects.
Originally posted by sonhouseArr you beat me by 30 points! Mine is just 110.
...Then, like me, clocking in around 140, ..
Originally posted by humyYeah, I kinda like your posts humy (love your enthusiasm), but there's a saying about a wise person never blowing his/her own horn, at least not until the actual revolutionalising has taken place, talk is cheap and all that.
Arr you beat me by 30 points! Mine is just 110.
But, if there only there was such thing as a ability-to-solve-paradoxes-IQ, I would guess score something like ~250 on that one because I have recently discovered I have an incredible ability (which surprises me ) specifically for solving certain types of epistemological paradoxes while when doing my research ...[text shortened]... probabilities to any theory presented to it that can be rationally assigned with a probability.
The post that was quoted here has been removedIt just shows how IQ is so overrated. I don't call genius somebody with an IQ of 150, it is more like having an 8 cylinder engine in a VW bug. If you just use it to tool around town picking up girls, you are not going far.
Originally posted by FabianFnasWhen the concept of the mathematical zero, along with the symbol for it, was first spread around, some people were so suspicious of it and thought it was so wrong that they rioted over it protesting and demanded that it should be got rid of. Perhaps if a teacher had tried to teach Julius Caesar as an adult about the number zero, Caesar would have had him fed to the lions for it? As for negative numbers -lets not go there.
The IQ scale is based of the fact that the average IQ is 100 points.
If the humanity will gain double its IQ, the the definition define the average as being 100 points anyway.
If baby Julius Caesar was to be given education todays in math and science - would he be a good student? Would he be able to absorb quantum physics, integration theory, space te ...[text shortened]... f Julius Caesar, people didn't know about the mathematic zero, negative numbers, real numbers...
Originally posted by humyAny human from a time less than 100,000 years ago, taken as a child would be able to be taught any modern subject. It might have been a bit dicey taking someone from 300,000 years ago, even before Neandertals. I bet Neandertals would have been able to be taught if taken as a child.
When the concept of the mathematical zero, along with the symbol for it, was first spread around, some people were so suspicious of it and thought it was so wrong that they rioted over it protesting and demanded that it should be got rid of. Perhaps if a teacher had tried to teach Julius Caesar as an adult about the number zero, Caesar would have had him fed to the lions for it? As for negative numbers -lets not go there.