Posted on 09/19/2015 12:08:13 PM PDT by pabianice
...IQ has a substantial direct correlation with measures of success in life, and it is also correlated with a variety of other characteristics that promote success...
...It’s not just that the IQ gap in working-class and upper-middle-class communities has gotten wider. The life penalties associated with low IQ have risen since 1960. If you focus on the economic changes since 1960, those with low IQ have faced a labor market in which the market value of a strong back has dropped while the value of brains has soared...
...If you focus on the reforms and social programs of the 1960s, the reductions in immediate penalties for destructive behavior (e.g., doing drugs, dropping out of school, grabbing purses, having a baby without marriage) had the most effect on people who were impulsive, attracted to immediate gratification, and unable to foresee long-term consequences—qualities associated with low IQ. The effects of such changes in incentives among the smart were much smaller....
Certainly the article implied it. (Is this Charles Murray?)
I think you’ve been watching A Clockwork Orange one to many times.
Who damages the most people, the local ruffians or the DC elite crowd?
Where is it even implied? I’m a working person with a MENSA level IQ and I’m not finding anything offensive or clearly incorrect.
Oh, no. Now the Mensa folks are weighing in. Spare me!
“Do I-phones lower IQ?”
Phones are getting smarter, and people are getting dumber.
Al Gore manages to be both an elite AND an idiot. And, yes, he’s causing, in his own way, just as much trouble as the local ruffians, lol.
For instance, what percentage of whites are working to pay taxes. What percentage of blacks are not working and benefiting as well as many working class whites?
Do you have a better solution(A trillion dollar “program is not an acceptable response.)? Besides in Clockwork Orange they tried conditioning techniques which were big at or near the time of the movie.) I said pharmacological means.
You didn’t get the point of my argument apparently. I’m agreeing that being working class doesn’t mean one is dumb at all. I think you are misinterpreting what the author is saying. It’s not saying “all this kind of people are that,” just that “more of this kind of people are that than the other.”
My late mom was invited to join Mensa. She went twice. When I asked her why she stopped going, she said, “Pabianice, they are the most boring people I’ve ever met. All they do is talk about themselves.”
Perhaps bringing back jobs to this country which will employ those working class people?
Of course, I’m simply not someone who thinks everybody I meet is stupid. I don’t think the girl who sells me fries at McDonald’s is stupid. I just don’t. I respect she has a job and hope she goes up the chain of success. I find many people in these jobs to be actually quite smart.
The only time liberals will talk about IQ is when they are trying to get one of their pets off death row. Otherwise, talking about it is “racist.” Remember how they burned “The Bell Curve”?
Having an average or above average IQ doesn’t guaranty success in life, but it helps a lot. Having a below average IQ doesn’t necessarily mean failure. But, when you couple below average IQ with destructive personal or societal culture, it can end in disaster.
So there is a solution! Encourage Jews and blacks to intermarry. Within a few generations, the average I.Q. of blacks will rise. Unfortunately, many Jews will be on welfare and spending all their time listening to rap "music".
I’d never go to a Mensa meeting... I think you’d have to be a freak to WANT to go to one (your late mother excepted). The whole concept is very creepy.
I had a friend - a British actor who was a wiz at puzzles, a brilliant Bridge player and a member of Mensa. Sadly, he was the stupidest man I have every met in my entire life. Didn’t Christopher Hitchens take that organization down years ago??
From that perspective, whites do have a lower IQ.
High IQ doesn’t always equate with an ability to function well in the world. More often than not it’s a predictor of economic success, but there have always been notable exceptions.
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