Being born in a slum more than likely means that your parents failed the IQ test, which is a strong signal about your IQ.
Re:My own private basic income
by URSpider94 on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:13PM
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That is completely untrue. When researchers have actually taken the time to do IQ testing in poor communities, they find a similar distribution of high and low IQ's as in the general population. There are a lot of 130 IQ people living in the slums.
Re:My own private basic income
by KSteffensen on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:02PM
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I hope that was meant to be ironic. If not that was one of the most depressing statements I have seen in a while.
Re:My own private basic income
by state_less on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @05:36PM
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Americans went from riches to soup lines (living in slums/squalor) over various periods of time. Though their IQ did not vary over that same time period.
A strong signal IQ is not, maybe a nice tailwind, but that doesn't help much if you are born in the bogs.
Do you think that if you'd been born in a slum you would have a decent chance of winning in the IQ test & optimal choice events in your life? I would imagine that almost anyone reading these comments has been unbelievably fortunate to be born into relatively wealthy circumstances & had things like "books" around to help bolster their IQ.