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Divvel

Intelligence is genetic and innate in humans.

This is more of an unpopular fact than an unpopular opinion.

The heredity of IQ is atleast 0.75, with arguments for 0.95(parental behaviour is also genetic). People don't like it since they make the assumption that this removes free will or all accountability from people or something.

At the very least, I think people should treat the hypothesis honestly, instead of smearing it with accusations of eugenics or racism. Intelligence comes from the brain, and the brain is made by genes. All phenotypic traits are controlled by replicators- humans are genes. I can imagine the existence of genes that allow for less intelligence, so the hereditarian theory isn't as unfounded or backwards as leftists would like to believe. It's completely consistent and has great predictive abilities.

Posted Mar 9, 2019, 7:42 PM UTC

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IrrelevantGreed•

Agreed, kinda. Both sides of my family aren’t smart at all but me and my one brother are, now I’ve really tried in school and id like to say that I’ve trained to get smarted but my brother never tried and he’s very smart as-well

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AnonymousUser99999•

I like to watch intellectually mediocre people boat about their IQ. Sincerely, a mixed race person with Savant Syndrome.

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DivvelOP•

I didn't boast about my IQ. Your special ability is The Strawman.

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AnonymousUser99999•

My special ability is a gift from mother nature. Bestowed upon to me and less than 1% of the world population. As soon as you mentioned the word 'leftist' I immediately knew where this was turning into. I shalt not be fooled.

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DivvelOP•

Lmao

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coolman3475•

Race and IQ also correlate.

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Aguy711•

Correlation doesn’t equal causation. Also a lot of that data is inaccurate, like how China say the data from the wealthy Shang hi region represents all of China. Africa has a low iq because of malnourishment.

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DivvelOP•

Do they?

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SSSSSoupy•

I'm sorry but you clearly haven't met me based on the title alone

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