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Re:Two-thirds of Americans approve of editing human DNA to t... by vkjv on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:02PM (#15133269)
Nitpick: IQ is based on a normal distribution with 100 as the mean. If everyone had an IQ of today's 120, then it would no longer be an IQ of 120.
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Re:Two-thirds of Americans approve of editing human DNA to t... by SerLava on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:09PM (#15133331)
Meta nitpick: he's clearly referring to the future relative to now, so it makes sense in that context.
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Re:Two-thirds of Americans approve of editing human DNA to t... by bpodgursky on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:09PM (#15133335)
I don't think it gets recalibrated year to year.
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