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To: Morpheus2009
I still believe that intelligence can be trained, over generations.

You are, of course, free to believe as you wish.

However, I see no empirical evidence to support your belief.

6 posted on 09/05/2026 2:56:47 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Can stupidity be trained?


14 posted on 09/05/2026 3:05:54 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: NorthMountain

Intelligence and training are very different.

You can train flatworms. When you do that, do they become more intelligent?

I’ve been training doctors since I was trained myself. People of a number of different IQ levels can be successfully trained. But the further down the scale someone is, the harder they have to work and the more effort it is for them to retain information.

And it is not the case that the most intelligent ones make the best doctors. High IQ does not confer good character nor good work habits. Super-smart medical students can get away with things more ordinary ones can’t.

It is probably true that the IQ band for doctors is more like 110-140+, and that people in the 90-110 band are going to struggle.

But the evidence that you can “train” an IQ of 90 up to 110 by requiring Algebra II in high school is, well, nonexistent.


25 posted on 09/05/2026 3:40:56 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et des phrases)
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