UnintuitiveBinaryLoop
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Studies of twins show that IQ is roughly 80% heritable (meaning 80% of the variability in intelligence is due to variation in genes) by adulthood. The figures are lower for children, only 40%, but genes are the dominant factor by adulthood. Science has pretty clearly shown that people are smart largely due to genetics, not socioeconomics, not amounts of free time, and not culture. Education makes you educated, not smart.
It is suspected although not universally accepted that the Ashkenazi spent so much time as bankers and traders with so little interbreeding with the rest of the population that they experienced strong selective pressure for intelligence in general and bookkeeping intelligence in particular. This explains their pattern of genetic diseases and the association of those diseases with unusually high intelligence even among the Ashkenazim. It also explains the drop in their visual intelligence, if there's finite brain-space available and you don't need visual intelligence to be a trader/banker.
IQ is strongly correlated with creativity up to an IQ of 120. IQ, Creativity and the Twisted Pear, or Why the Sidekick Gets the Girl (http://www.megasociety.org/noesis/149/iq&pear.html) 91% of the population has an IQ of 120 or below, so for the vast majority of people intelligence matters a hell of a lot to creativity.
Claiming true genius involves creativity and not intelligence is one those bits of deep wisdom that sounds nice but isn't actually true. The Ashkenazi win a ridiculous number of Nobel Prizes, and they aren't really known for being creative. They're known for being intelligent. You're welcome to argue that winning Nobel Prizes doesn't indicate whatever definition of "true genius" you happen to be using.
For anyone who has a hard time swallowing the fact that intelligence is ridiculously heritable, it may help to remember that we are getting pretty close to being able to genetically engineer humans. I don't think it's quite so hard to accept that intelligence is a genetic lottery when you realize that we're close to being able to rig the hell out of said lottery. The problem is fundamentally fixable, and if the Ashkenazi's genetic diseases really are associated with intelligence, they could be an incredible tool for inspiring genetic modifications for increased intelligence. Most of the diseases appear to be of the type where having one copy of the allele makes you smarter, and having two copies makes you even smarter but also sick. Genetic engineering could insure that you only get one copy or could invent a new allele which just makes you smart with no nasty side effects.
Di truyền chiếm 1 phần cực lớn nhé, đấy là lý do vì sao ta thường thấy con của các nhà khoa học, giáo sư,... thường thông minh hơn con các thành phần lao động chân tay, dân trí thấp
It is suspected although not universally accepted that the Ashkenazi spent so much time as bankers and traders with so little interbreeding with the rest of the population that they experienced strong selective pressure for intelligence in general and bookkeeping intelligence in particular. This explains their pattern of genetic diseases and the association of those diseases with unusually high intelligence even among the Ashkenazim. It also explains the drop in their visual intelligence, if there's finite brain-space available and you don't need visual intelligence to be a trader/banker.
IQ is strongly correlated with creativity up to an IQ of 120. IQ, Creativity and the Twisted Pear, or Why the Sidekick Gets the Girl (http://www.megasociety.org/noesis/149/iq&pear.html) 91% of the population has an IQ of 120 or below, so for the vast majority of people intelligence matters a hell of a lot to creativity.
Claiming true genius involves creativity and not intelligence is one those bits of deep wisdom that sounds nice but isn't actually true. The Ashkenazi win a ridiculous number of Nobel Prizes, and they aren't really known for being creative. They're known for being intelligent. You're welcome to argue that winning Nobel Prizes doesn't indicate whatever definition of "true genius" you happen to be using.
For anyone who has a hard time swallowing the fact that intelligence is ridiculously heritable, it may help to remember that we are getting pretty close to being able to genetically engineer humans. I don't think it's quite so hard to accept that intelligence is a genetic lottery when you realize that we're close to being able to rig the hell out of said lottery. The problem is fundamentally fixable, and if the Ashkenazi's genetic diseases really are associated with intelligence, they could be an incredible tool for inspiring genetic modifications for increased intelligence. Most of the diseases appear to be of the type where having one copy of the allele makes you smarter, and having two copies makes you even smarter but also sick. Genetic engineering could insure that you only get one copy or could invent a new allele which just makes you smart with no nasty side effects.
Di truyền chiếm 1 phần cực lớn nhé, đấy là lý do vì sao ta thường thấy con của các nhà khoa học, giáo sư,... thường thông minh hơn con các thành phần lao động chân tay, dân trí thấp
