Research suggests that the genetic component of IQ only manifests with, basically, a middle-class lifestyle, which was not attainable for the vast majority of humans for the vast majority of history.
References? This seems intuitivly wrong to me, as I know many high IQ individuals who grew up in rough circumstances, and would love to learn more. I thought it was the reverse, that in Middle-class or above groups, that Enviornment didn't play much of a role in IQ (and even that I think breaks down once one starts looking at the 'over 145 crowd.) Are we saying the same thing? I'm confused
Please help!
And, as one last note, most men in the US are looking for a women who is *almost* as intelligent as themselves, which has done quite a bit to keep this PG female out of the gene pool. Quite a bit of that endeavor, she's done on her own. Intensity played a role.
So that's why all those boys ran in the opposite direction screaming...ok maybe not.
Thanks for mentioning this one - a hot potato, but one that does need to be looked at!
Personally - I think find comfort in the 'genetic pressure to keep females away from the IQ edges - individual males are expendable, so more availible for Mother Nature to have fun messing with' idea - but not at all sure it's accurate.
I think that part of it is our cultural definition of smart is itself gender biased. I can think of any number of males who seem 'much smarter' to me than myself, but I'm way ahead of them in qualities that I see as 'expressions of social skills' rather than of 'intelligence.' In a non-gender biased world, my guess is that social skills would be seen as a deep and subtle expression of intelligence. Like Moses I can see the promised land, but I don't get to live there.
I think that 'smartness' is always going to be somewhat culturally defined idea.
Of course there is male conditioning that 'showing their smartness' is very very important, while the female conditioning runs in the other direction. I read somewhere (on the notoriously unreliable Internet I suppose) that only 30% of the males who have ever lived on planet Earth were able to reproduce. I don't see how that could actually be a fact, but it does help me be more sympathetic to Grandstanding Males when I think that it might possibly be true.
Love and More Love,
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