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Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? by avmich on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:02PM (#26675965)
> there is no reason to believe people haven't gotten smarter as well.

Null hypothesis? By default we don't assume presence of changes, in the absence of reasons for that, and those reasons - that nutrition is causing IQ growth - need to be explained.

There shouldn't be no reasons not to assume something, it's not enough. Sorry for triple negative.

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Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? by dragonwriter on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:08PM (#26676014)
> By default we don't assume presence of changes,

This isn’t a by default issue, this is claiming counterevidence to increase in intelligence that justifies rejecting the validity of IQ in measuring intelligence because it is increasing. The null hypothesis doesn’t support that, only independent evidence of intelligence not increasing would.

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Re:Has humanity reached ‘peak intelligence’? by porb121 on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:32PM (#26676213)
by default we assume nothing, not a lack of change or interaction. to do the latter is to assert.
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