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| Jan 14, 2021 at 20:03 | history | edited | Nuclear Hoagie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 14, 2021 at 19:58 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @chasly-supportsMonica above average for this society we're talking about (1800s New York) where the average would be measured as 90 IQ today. Dumb question. | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 18:57 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | @user253751 "they exiled everyone who was above average" Average for where? Average for the island? Average for the US? the whole world? It makes a difference. What test(s) are they using? | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 18:11 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | @user253751 Of course. The question becomes how much of an outsize effect the intellectual elite have on a society. Eliminating the top half of intelligence from a society would probably have detrimental effects, but I think society could do OK with a small subset of the highest-IQ individuals missing. Human society has persisted successfully for thousands of years, and if the Flynn effect can be extrapolated, it's possible we'd find a time when there actually was no one with IQ>90 by modern standards. | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 18:06 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | 1800s NYC might've had the few people with 110 IQ (today) in charge, for example, but Moronland cannot. | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 18:03 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | @user253751 Right, but the lower the average IQ, the fewer people an IQ threshold of 90 will filter out. If the average IQ in the unfiltered population is 90, a threshold of 90 would eliminate half the population. If the average IQ is only 75, you'd lose only 15% of the population (assuming the SD of IQ remains about 15 points). If the average IQ is only 60, a threshold of 90 would only eliminate 5% of people. By modern standards, this threshold will leave most of society unaffected. | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 17:26 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | They didn't just reduce the average, though, they exiled everyone who was above average. | |
| Jan 14, 2021 at 14:27 | history | answered | Nuclear Hoagie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |