[hanamizu]

He long maintained the hereditability of IQ and personality traits

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Of course that’s just crazy talk—the idea that one might inherit IQ and or personality from one’s parents. Everyone knows that IQ, unlike other traits such as height, skin color, body shape, etc. is distributed completely randomly across the human race.

[Red Badger]

If that is true, why are people in Blue States and Blue Cities so stupid?...................

[FredZarguna]

“Intelligence is a social construct.”

[Dr. Sivana]

Everyone knows that IQ, unlike other traits such as height, skin color, body shape, etc. is distributed completely randomly across the human race.

IQ is not as likely to be inherited, particularly when you are talking about people at both ends of the spectrum. The tendency in all cases is a regression towards the mean.

Anecdotally, I knew a couple who both had genius IQs, and their children were slightly above average, at best.

On the other side, those whose IQ was stunted for developmental biological reasons (e.g. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) do NOT pass down the weakness to their offspring (assuming the mother doesn't repeat the mistake her own mother made).

Charles Murray is an honest researcher, and it is sad if his work relied on bad data. This kind of playing with the numbers is irresistible, and goes back forever. While Mendel himself was an honest monk, some of his assistants thought they were "helping" him by making the results statistically "too accurate" for his hypotheses.

While wanting to gain acceptance for a hypothesis is extremely tempting by itself, throw in glamour, fame, and political/social influence, (Mean, Kinsey, Michael Mann, Des Chardin) and it becomes irresistible. These days, throw in government funding, and it becomes nearly impossible to call anyone out on it.

[litehaus]

“is distributed completely randomly across the human race.”

Yepper, that’s why some areas had reading writing, math...thousands of years before others ! RIGHT ?...lol..

[Albion Wilde]

Of course that’s just crazy talk—the idea that one might inherit IQ and or personality from one’s parents. Everyone knows that IQ, unlike other traits such as height, skin color, body shape, etc. is distributed completely randomly across the human race.

And what's more: not just body positivity, but also such traits as intelligence and morality can be specifically redistributed to more politically correct recipients!