Why is the heritability of intelligence is such a threatening concept to some?
Genetics plays an important role in areas such as beef and milk production, timber and crop production and show dog breeding. Athletic ability and physical traits in humans clearly have a genetic component.
Yet somehow we are to believe that genes affect all these characteristics *except* intelligence?
“Why is the heritability of intelligence is such a threatening concept to some?”
I see two groups taking exception to the idea. One group with more muscles in their legs are insulted to be thought of as inferior to those with more muscles in their heads, regardless of reality. They do know those with the head muscles are more likely to rule, and they resent it. Another group that demands equal outcomes is threatened by challenges to the ideology of their agenda.
We can breed Border Collies for herding and intelligence, but in humans, genetics have no impact on intelligence.
Riiigghhhttt!
I had a Border Collie who had never seen a sheep until she was middle aged...on vacation, she met a friend’s range sheep (about 30 being kept in a pasture for a day just off the range), and she immediately rounded them up and pushed them thru a gate. She KNEW what to do without ever having seen it done. But behavior and intelligence have no basis in genetics. How odd!