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  • JollyJ Offline
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    Jolly
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    I'm glad the data shows we are much more educated.

    Intelligent? Not so much.

    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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    • JollyJ Jolly

      I'm glad the data shows we are much more educated.

      Intelligent? Not so much.

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      @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

      I'm glad the data shows we are much more educated.

      Intelligent? Not so much.

      I don’t know. Look up the ‘Flynn Effect’.

      Only non-witches get due process.

      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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        Not buying it.

        If somebody plopped you or most of the other people of your generation on a Victorian farm and told you to run it, could you? Without starving?

        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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        • JollyJ Jolly

          Not buying it.

          If somebody plopped you or most of the other people of your generation on a Victorian farm and told you to run it, could you? Without starving?

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          #34

          @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

          Not buying it.

          If somebody plopped you or most of the other people of your generation on a Victorian farm and told you to run it, could you? Without starving?

          It depends, do we have access to YouTube and a feed/farm/hardware store?

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          • JollyJ Jolly

            Not buying it.

            If somebody plopped you or most of the other people of your generation on a Victorian farm and told you to run it, could you? Without starving?

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            @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

            Not buying it.

            If somebody plopped you or most of the other people of your generation on a Victorian farm and told you to run it, could you? Without starving?

            Having a set of skills that one learned from childhood isn’t the same thing as intelligence. The Flynn effect is highly replicable.

            Only non-witches get due process.

            • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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            • JollyJ Offline
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              #36

              What are skills and the ability to apply them, if not intelligence?

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • 89th8 89th

                @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                Not buying it.

                If somebody plopped you or most of the other people of your generation on a Victorian farm and told you to run it, could you? Without starving?

                It depends, do we have access to YouTube and a feed/farm/hardware store?

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                Jolly
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                @89th said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                Not buying it.

                If somebody plopped you or most of the other people of your generation on a Victorian farm and told you to run it, could you? Without starving?

                It depends, do we have access to YouTube and a feed/farm/hardware store?

                No YouTube and you better make a crop or the village general store will not pack you very far on credit.

                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                  #38

                  Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                  It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                  And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                  Only non-witches get due process.

                  • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                    Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                    It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                    And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

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                    #39

                    @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                    Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                    It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                    And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                    For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                    Please love yourself.

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                      #40

                      I have a high IQ but I’m not good at much other than being good looking. And banging hot chicks pretty much constantly. And making tons of money. And totally pwning libtards.

                      Education is extremely important.

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                      • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                        @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                        Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                        It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                        And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                        For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

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                        wrote on last edited by
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                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                        @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                        Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                        It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                        And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                        For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                        Wrong.

                        If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                        • JollyJ Jolly

                          @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                          @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                          Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                          It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                          And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                          For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                          Wrong.

                          If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

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                          Aqua Letifer
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                          #42

                          @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                          @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                          @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                          Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                          It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                          And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                          For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                          Wrong.

                          If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                          No, it shouldn't. That's limbic system stuff that we've never evolved out of. It's a completely separate brain system from logic and creative problem-solving.

                          And I don't think I'm wrong in my assessment at all. You seem to think that anyone who isn't a homesteader is significantly more stupid than those who are, because only morons don't know how to grow their own crops and replace load-bearing walls.

                          Please love yourself.

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                            #43

                            Brain shape has changed in the last 300,000 years, but size has not. The current shape stabilized around 35,000 years ago.

                            So we're working with basically the same size organ since then.

                            In sheer, raw intelligence, I think we've been working with the same raw material for at least 20,000 years or more. Men are what they are. Education and training may have changed, but at birth we're no smarter than what we have been bred. Whether it is today, at the time of the Norman Conquest, the height of the Roman Empire, or the builders of Angkor Wat.

                            “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                            Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                            • JollyJ Jolly

                              @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                              @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                              Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                              It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                              And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                              For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                              Wrong.

                              If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

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                              #44

                              @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                              If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                              It’s not clear how long the Flynn effect has been happening. It is thought to be a modern phenomenon. Surely the rate at which change has happened in the last decades couldn’t have been happening for hundreds of years or people would have been dumber than dogs 500 years ago.

                              Also there’s a bit of selection bias in that when you read the ancients you’re likely reading the cream of their intellectual crop.

                              Only non-witches get due process.

                              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                              • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                                It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                                And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                                For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                                Wrong.

                                If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                                No, it shouldn't. That's limbic system stuff that we've never evolved out of. It's a completely separate brain system from logic and creative problem-solving.

                                And I don't think I'm wrong in my assessment at all. You seem to think that anyone who isn't a homesteader is significantly more stupid than those who are, because only morons don't know how to grow their own crops and replace load-bearing walls.

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                                Jolly
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                                #45

                                @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                                It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                                And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                                For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                                P> > Wrong.

                                If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                                No, it shouldn't. That's limbic system stuff that we've never evolved out of. It's a completely separate brain system from logic and creative problem-solving.

                                And I don't think I'm wrong in my assessment at all. You seem to think that anyone who isn't a homesteader is significantly more stupid than those who are, because only morons don't know how to grow their own crops and replace load-bearing walls.

                                No, I think people vastly overvalue their ability to navel-gaze and think Deep Thoughts, confusing that with superior intelligence. I think a good farmer, who can squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum crop is intelligent. Or a ghetto kid born into poverty, who somehow manages to scrape and work his way out of poverty into the middle or upper middle-class is pretty intelligent. Or a Polynesian fisherman, who can read the waves and how the water breaks, reading the weather and knowing how to set his nets to outcatch his peers is intelligent.

                                You take those people, give them the education that the modern "intellectual" has and you will see similar IQ scores, providing the test is not biased or rigged.

                                “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                • JollyJ Jolly

                                  @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                  @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                  @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                  @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                  Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                                  It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                                  And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                                  For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                                  P> > Wrong.

                                  If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                                  No, it shouldn't. That's limbic system stuff that we've never evolved out of. It's a completely separate brain system from logic and creative problem-solving.

                                  And I don't think I'm wrong in my assessment at all. You seem to think that anyone who isn't a homesteader is significantly more stupid than those who are, because only morons don't know how to grow their own crops and replace load-bearing walls.

                                  No, I think people vastly overvalue their ability to navel-gaze and think Deep Thoughts, confusing that with superior intelligence. I think a good farmer, who can squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum crop is intelligent. Or a ghetto kid born into poverty, who somehow manages to scrape and work his way out of poverty into the middle or upper middle-class is pretty intelligent. Or a Polynesian fisherman, who can read the waves and how the water breaks, reading the weather and knowing how to set his nets to outcatch his peers is intelligent.

                                  You take those people, give them the education that the modern "intellectual" has and you will see similar IQ scores, providing the test is not biased or rigged.

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                                  @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                  @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                  @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                  @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                  @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                  Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                                  It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                                  And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                                  For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                                  P> > Wrong.

                                  If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                                  No, it shouldn't. That's limbic system stuff that we've never evolved out of. It's a completely separate brain system from logic and creative problem-solving.

                                  And I don't think I'm wrong in my assessment at all. You seem to think that anyone who isn't a homesteader is significantly more stupid than those who are, because only morons don't know how to grow their own crops and replace load-bearing walls.

                                  No, I think people vastly overvalue their ability to navel-gaze and think Deep Thoughts, confusing that with superior intelligence. I think a good farmer, who can squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum is intelligent. Or a ghetto kid born into poverty, who somehow manages to scrape and work his way out of poverty into the middle or upper middle-class is pretty intelligent. Or a Polynesian fisherman, who can read the waves and how the water breaks, reading the weather and knowing how to set his nets to outcatch his peers is intelligent.

                                  You take those people, give them the education that the modern "intellectual" has and you will see similar IQ scores, providing the test is not biased or rigged.

                                  I didn't say you thought farmers and fishermen weren't intelligent. I'm saying that your posts consistently insinuate that urban professional knowledge workers are unintelligent because they can't "squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum." You think intelligence means "have the skills I value."

                                  Please love yourself.

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                                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                    @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                    If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                                    It’s not clear how long the Flynn effect has been happening. It is thought to be a modern phenomenon. Surely the rate at which change has happened in the last decades couldn’t have been happening for hundreds of years or people would have been dumber than dogs 500 years ago.

                                    Also there’s a bit of selection bias in that when you read the ancients you’re likely reading the cream of their intellectual crop.

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                                    @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                    @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                    If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                                    It’s not clear how long the Flynn effect has been happening. It is thought to be a modern phenomenon. Surely the rate at which change has happened in the last decades couldn’t have been happening for hundreds of years or people would have been dumber than dogs 500 years ago.

                                    Also there’s a bit of selection bias in that when you read the ancients you’re likely reading the cream of their intellectual crop.

                                    Probably. But the question is whether their cream is better than our cream? I'm saying at the most basic level, no.

                                    We have more cream as a product of a vast increase in total numbers.

                                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                    • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                                      @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                                      It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                                      And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                                      For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                                      P> > Wrong.

                                      If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                                      No, it shouldn't. That's limbic system stuff that we've never evolved out of. It's a completely separate brain system from logic and creative problem-solving.

                                      And I don't think I'm wrong in my assessment at all. You seem to think that anyone who isn't a homesteader is significantly more stupid than those who are, because only morons don't know how to grow their own crops and replace load-bearing walls.

                                      No, I think people vastly overvalue their ability to navel-gaze and think Deep Thoughts, confusing that with superior intelligence. I think a good farmer, who can squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum is intelligent. Or a ghetto kid born into poverty, who somehow manages to scrape and work his way out of poverty into the middle or upper middle-class is pretty intelligent. Or a Polynesian fisherman, who can read the waves and how the water breaks, reading the weather and knowing how to set his nets to outcatch his peers is intelligent.

                                      You take those people, give them the education that the modern "intellectual" has and you will see similar IQ scores, providing the test is not biased or rigged.

                                      I didn't say you thought farmers and fishermen weren't intelligent. I'm saying that your posts consistently insinuate that urban professional knowledge workers are unintelligent because they can't "squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum." You think intelligence means "have the skills I value."

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                                      Jolly
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                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                      Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                                      It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                                      And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                                      For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                                      P> > Wrong.

                                      If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                                      No, it shouldn't. That's limbic system stuff that we've never evolved out of. It's a completely separate brain system from logic and creative problem-solving.

                                      And I don't think I'm wrong in my assessment at all. You seem to think that anyone who isn't a homesteader is significantly more stupid than those who are, because only morons don't know how to grow their own crops and replace load-bearing walls.

                                      No, I think people vastly overvalue their ability to navel-gaze and think Deep Thoughts, confusing that with superior intelligence. I think a good farmer, who can squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum is intelligent. Or a ghetto kid born into poverty, who somehow manages to scrape and work his way out of poverty into the middle or upper middle-class is pretty intelligent. Or a Polynesian fisherman, who can read the waves and how the water breaks, reading the weather and knowing how to set his nets to outcatch his peers is intelligent.

                                      You take those people, give them the education that the modern "intellectual" has and you will see similar IQ scores, providing the test is not biased or rigged.

                                      I didn't say you thought farmers and fishermen weren't intelligent. I'm saying that your posts consistently insinuate that urban professional knowledge workers are unintelligent because they can't "squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum." You think intelligence means "have the skills I value."

                                      Did I say that or is that your inference?

                                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                                        It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                                        And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                                        For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                                        P> > Wrong.

                                        If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                                        No, it shouldn't. That's limbic system stuff that we've never evolved out of. It's a completely separate brain system from logic and creative problem-solving.

                                        And I don't think I'm wrong in my assessment at all. You seem to think that anyone who isn't a homesteader is significantly more stupid than those who are, because only morons don't know how to grow their own crops and replace load-bearing walls.

                                        No, I think people vastly overvalue their ability to navel-gaze and think Deep Thoughts, confusing that with superior intelligence. I think a good farmer, who can squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum is intelligent. Or a ghetto kid born into poverty, who somehow manages to scrape and work his way out of poverty into the middle or upper middle-class is pretty intelligent. Or a Polynesian fisherman, who can read the waves and how the water breaks, reading the weather and knowing how to set his nets to outcatch his peers is intelligent.

                                        You take those people, give them the education that the modern "intellectual" has and you will see similar IQ scores, providing the test is not biased or rigged.

                                        I didn't say you thought farmers and fishermen weren't intelligent. I'm saying that your posts consistently insinuate that urban professional knowledge workers are unintelligent because they can't "squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum." You think intelligence means "have the skills I value."

                                        Did I say that or is that your inference?

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                                        @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @Jolly said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @Aqua-Letifer said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        @jon-nyc said in Who here had grandparents who got a college degree?:

                                        Intelligence helps you acquire skills.

                                        It’s not like if you teach someone to farm they get an IQ boost out of it.

                                        And obviously there are plenty of things any modern person can do that would baffle the Victorians.

                                        For Jolly, intelligence is synonymous with "shares my values."

                                        P> > Wrong.

                                        If the Flynn Effect is real, why can I read a 2500 year-old document and still see men committing the same abusive and heinous acts today? The level of education and knowledge is immeasurably higher today, but men still engage in the same self-destructive behavior. If today's man were vastly more intelligent than his ancestors of more than two millennia ago, should not his destructive and abusive behavior have stopped?

                                        No, it shouldn't. That's limbic system stuff that we've never evolved out of. It's a completely separate brain system from logic and creative problem-solving.

                                        And I don't think I'm wrong in my assessment at all. You seem to think that anyone who isn't a homesteader is significantly more stupid than those who are, because only morons don't know how to grow their own crops and replace load-bearing walls.

                                        No, I think people vastly overvalue their ability to navel-gaze and think Deep Thoughts, confusing that with superior intelligence. I think a good farmer, who can squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum is intelligent. Or a ghetto kid born into poverty, who somehow manages to scrape and work his way out of poverty into the middle or upper middle-class is pretty intelligent. Or a Polynesian fisherman, who can read the waves and how the water breaks, reading the weather and knowing how to set his nets to outcatch his peers is intelligent.

                                        You take those people, give them the education that the modern "intellectual" has and you will see similar IQ scores, providing the test is not biased or rigged.

                                        I didn't say you thought farmers and fishermen weren't intelligent. I'm saying that your posts consistently insinuate that urban professional knowledge workers are unintelligent because they can't "squeeze a bit of dirt in his hand, look at the sky and know he's got a couple of days to plant for a hopeful maximum." You think intelligence means "have the skills I value."

                                        Did I say that or is that your inference?

                                        I'm paraphrasing, so feel free to correct me, but you've said many times that urban professionals were rubes because they don't appreciate where their food comes from. And you did straightup say my degree was worthless, so, you tell me. 😄

                                        Please love yourself.

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                                          I do think many urban professionals are of the drone class, creating little in the bigger scheme of things. That has nothing to do with their intelligence, but with their worth to society.

                                          I don't remember saying your degree was worthless, but I'm sure I was right at the time.

                                          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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