As I recall, studying for an IQ test is able to improve your result by around 7%. That's honestly a pretty impressively low %, indicates to me some level of validity just based on that. What other variables are considered? And can you link me to the language thing? When I look up language, I'm just seeing correlation between language proficiency and IQ, which shouldn't be surprising -- I would imagine that people who measure a higher IQ are better at learning languages.
There is great interest in studying IQ, and people do study that quite seriously.
Philosophically I don’t really think there’s a uniform agreement on what exactly defines general intellect
Agreed, and the person you're replying to said essentially the same thing. IQ itself has correlations with other things, and that alone makes it interesting.
My bad! Typo. They are paid to reversibly sterilize themselves. (Actually, any method of sterilization is paid for, and they can choose reversible or non-reversible ones.)
Eugenics also includes in-vitro sterilization and selecting against horrible illnesses like sickle-cell anemia. Nazism, and what Beattie is proposing, is the dark side of eugenics, but eugenics is not inherently bad. Please try to look past the propaganda.
But idea of offering feral populations financial incentives for voluntary sterilization is completely taboo.
What the hell does 'feral' mean? Does he think there are actually feral people in the USA in any double-digit quantity in this day and age? Seems insane.
Anyway, Project Prevention already exists to pay meth addicts to voluntarily sterilize themselves (reversably). That's actually a good cause, because the children of meth addicts have serious disabilities that cost taxpayers millions of dollars and cause a painful and unpleasant life -- much better that that child be born to somebody else. We don't need this lunatic saying insane shit about feral children and mass sterilization.
I don't know about intelligence, but it's well-known that IQ results are partially heritable genetically. (Yes, even when controlling for environment one is raised in.) Did you actually research this or did you make that up because it sounded nice?
It’s part of Japanese culture. Unless you are living in Japan, you don’t get a say in their culture.
Actually you do if you pay for anime. Sucks to live in a capitalist society, but this is one thing that results from it -- you vote with your wallet. And by the way, you obviously have a very narrow view of Japan if you think that this is a deep-set part of the culture. For one thing, it's not hard to find Japanese media without those things, and for two, such things offend the sensibilities of many Japanese people I know.
It's part of a Japanese subculture. And it's actually part of a subculture in western countries too, since they exported it. Western fans ask for that kind of stuff just like Japanese fans do. This is why you see it even in, say, Netflix-produced anime.
The depiction of pedophilia is not against the law as far as I'm aware. Not in Canada at least. I don't really think Buffy the Vampire Slayer should be banned.
I prefer it when a greater proportion of the media available to me is also media I would like to consume. I choose not to consume dubious stuff that I don't like.
As I recall, studying for an IQ test is able to improve your result by around 7%. That's honestly a pretty impressively low %, indicates to me some level of validity just based on that. What other variables are considered? And can you link me to the language thing? When I look up language, I'm just seeing correlation between language proficiency and IQ, which shouldn't be surprising -- I would imagine that people who measure a higher IQ are better at learning languages.
There is great interest in studying IQ, and people do study that quite seriously.
Agreed, and the person you're replying to said essentially the same thing. IQ itself has correlations with other things, and that alone makes it interesting.