Re:FUTURE GENERATIONS:What We're All About
by mosheg on Sunday June 15, 2008 @03:18PM
(#218171)
They are misleading by showing only part of the truth.
Yes, IQ contributes to the successful civilization, but it is not the only factor.
There's also good heart, self-discipline, empathy, sympathy, and lots more that high IQ will not guarantee and is essential for happy civilization.
People with high IQ very well might be ignorant, self-focused, narcissistic, etc., and people with lesser IQ will be more good hearted, compationed, altruistic, and this might contribute more to civilization than high IQ.
Re:FUTURE GENERATIONS:What We're All About
by meredydd on Sunday June 15, 2008 @06:40PM
(#218228)
Looking at the user, I think it's fair to say that this is a (fairly well-executed) troll. One post since registration, and all you'd need is two sock-puppets in rapid succession to push it onto the front page.
I have to say, I've been wondering why this hasn't happened sooner. It's worked for spam, with only a couple of upvotes per article. Why not trolling?
Incidentally - and I want to say this very carefully - I believe it should not be out of bounds to examine, for example, the influence of genetic heredity as opposed to environment upon various societal issues. I'm largely discounting this article as a troll based on wild-eyed paranoid claims and red-baiting, rather than claiming enough of a knowledge of the subject to rebut every single one of its claims. (Although if there is, say, an equivalent to talk.origins on this subject, I'd be interested to see it.)
EDIT: Okay, make that "paranoid claims, red-baiting and rejecting 'mainstream science' as conspiracy". Yeah, I'd call that a troll.
Re:FUTURE GENERATIONS:What We're All About
by geuis on Sunday June 15, 2008 @02:54PM
(#218158)
OK HN, its time to get off the pot and give us(community) the ability to bury stories. But do it better than digg and put buried stories into a different category that we can look through.
Yes, IQ contributes to the successful civilization, but it is not the only factor.
There's also good heart, self-discipline, empathy, sympathy, and lots more that high IQ will not guarantee and is essential for happy civilization.
People with high IQ very well might be ignorant, self-focused, narcissistic, etc., and people with lesser IQ will be more good hearted, compationed, altruistic, and this might contribute more to civilization than high IQ.
It's also important to know just how fucking wrong they are.
I have to say, I've been wondering why this hasn't happened sooner. It's worked for spam, with only a couple of upvotes per article. Why not trolling?
Incidentally - and I want to say this very carefully - I believe it should not be out of bounds to examine, for example, the influence of genetic heredity as opposed to environment upon various societal issues. I'm largely discounting this article as a troll based on wild-eyed paranoid claims and red-baiting, rather than claiming enough of a knowledge of the subject to rebut every single one of its claims. (Although if there is, say, an equivalent to talk.origins on this subject, I'd be interested to see it.)
EDIT: Okay, make that "paranoid claims, red-baiting and rejecting 'mainstream science' as conspiracy". Yeah, I'd call that a troll.
You'd better be careful, look a happened to Watson. God I hate taboo subjects.
LE: Ok, read the conclusion. It's more out of fasion then sick. Wonder how it got on the first page...
This is not the sort of thing we need here, really.
Fazil: I think you should probably fuck off and die if you don't mind.