Analyse this - Sophocles
Reeks of eugenics.
Elitism: only fathomed by those who believe in it."
That makes it a religion, and a pretty rotten one.
You need to see the movie Idiocracy.
“If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?”
Source? Links?
Big deal. Every society needs its blue-collar workers, its service industry people. They’re the backbone of any culture, no matter when or where.
The issue here is the confusion of cause and effect. It’s not that lower and working class people have lower IQ’s inherently. It’s that IQ limits one’s prospects in life. People with lower intellect tend to end up not making as much money as people who are smarter, nor managing it as well. Ted Kennedy is an exception to the rule, of course.
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Hm. So, since the Democrats market themselves as “The Party Of The Working Class®,” doesn’t this study mean that they’re the party of dumb people?
His bio ...
Education:
Backwell Primary School & Backwell Comprehensive School, Somerset, England.
MBBS Honours : 1982 University of Newcastle upon Tyne MD : 1988 University of Newcastle upon Tyne - Neuroendocrine correlates of depression MA (English) : 1989 University of Durham - The literature of Alasdair Gray
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No Oxford or Cambridge. I guess he's not really smart enough to be taken seriously.
Mr. Charlton needs to add an "e" to his name and change it to charleton, because he is one. Anybody familiar with the gaussian distribution of intelligence knows that he is full of it.
This is from the UK. In the US, you can be a blithering idiot and gain admission to Harvard or Yale, as long as you’re from the right family. (Can you say JFK, Jr?) On the other hand, a Harvard diploma isn’t the only ticket to a successful life in the US. Plenty of blue-collar background people graduate from State Universities and become quite successful. I’m one of them.
Gee, could it be that kids from working-class families simply can’t afford to go to “elite” universities (unless they are acedemic or sports superstars, that is)?
It’s like the old statistics problem - people with degrees from Harvard have a higher average starting salary than people with degrees from your average state university. There are many reasons for this, but the main one is that many of the Harvard kids already have staff positions waiting for them in daddy’s company, while the state u kids generally start closer to the bottom.
What is really pathetic in all this I.Q./Higher Education(sic)
“work with your brains and not your hands” rhetoric, and the accompanying social shame that is supposed to be your
“lot” is you don’t “do well” in school, is that at bottom it is all nothing more than very agressive propaganda for our already discredited universities. And it all comes down to MONEY, and the cache that is assumed to inhere to the huge amounts it takes to “get in” and the supposed huge amounts you’ll be making once you go through “their programs”. Tell it to Frank Lloyd Wright, who never went to Architecture school, or to Mies van der Rohe, who started his work life at the age of 12 on construction sites carrying bricks and mortar to the tradesman building houses and office buildings.
Rah, rah, rah, we're going to smash the oiks! Ha ha ha ha ha!
To deny there are statistical IQ differences between to classes or races is the same as admiring the emperor's clothes.