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1 posted on 12/02/2018 1:29:38 PM PST by ETL
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2 posted on 12/02/2018 1:40:47 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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So Neanderthals were smarter than anatomically modern humans after all. Supposedly Asians have more Neanderthal DNA than Europeans, which would explain why they are often smarter.


5 posted on 12/02/2018 1:49:26 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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6 posted on 12/02/2018 1:50:11 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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8 posted on 12/02/2018 2:52:09 PM PST by tomkat (~ 3.5% Neanderthal)
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“you never have the opportunity to play, so you never realize your potential”

And if you spend your primary school days learning about how to have gay sex, to save the planet, and to avoid second hand smoke, you are forever retarded in any technical endeavor.


9 posted on 12/02/2018 3:03:33 PM PST by fruser1
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So it sounds like the only things they tested were "cognitive performance" - most likely the ability to take a test, and degree of education - something I would think might be inversely correlated with intelligence.

How about testing for actual accomplishment or ability?
10 posted on 12/02/2018 3:09:23 PM PST by chrisser
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Participants took a short questionnaire that tests logic and reasoning ability but not acquired knowledge, yielding a relatively "noisy" measure of general cognitive performance.

Logic and reasoning are enhanced by education, at least the right kind of education. The SJWs being turned out by colleges these days probably would score very low on these measures.

I cannot begin to think how one would relate brain size to intelligence, since there are so many variables and conducting a controlled study is nearly impossible. Modern humans actually have smaller brains than our ancestors, a phenomenon related to the high degree of specialization we have developed as we have become civilized. We no longer have to devote huge amounts of brain power to survival, and we do not have to carry out most tasks related to daily survival. Those tasks are being done, by people who have specifically trained to do those tasks. Domestic animals also have smaller brains than their ancestors, for much the same reason. Civilization allows for specialization while minimizing the intellectual demands of survival.

On the most basic analysis, though, one can relate brain size to intelligence. On average, human brains are much larger than mouse brains. And we are much smarter than mice.

11 posted on 12/02/2018 3:17:21 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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