TheGrinchSR wrote:Evidence suggests that intelligence is probably not inheritable to any great degree. See the story of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank...http://www.slate.com/articles/life/seed ... _grew.html which starts there...

Evidence? What evidence?

Women had to be married to infertile men, well-educated, and financially comfortable.

Not only is "200 children" nothing in terms of evolution, the project was doomed to fail from the beginning. The only thing this seems to prove is that Nobel's prize winners seem to have a hard time getting laid and that women married to infertile men aren't the smartest bunch. The whole project assumes that winning a Nobel's prize makes you a genious. It was doomed to fail.

Kary Mullis used LSD to develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences. Francis Crick admitted to being high on LSD when he saw DNA. Mullis was awarded a Nobel's prize in chemistry and Crick in physiology or medicine. Does using LSD in their discoveries make these men geniouses? No.

I was hoping for a definition of intelligence here, but no, back to the same old:

Charles Spearman suggested in 1904 that there might be a general intelligence factor (usually called g) associated with all intellectual tasks. Its nature was never very clear, but it was thought that its value could be inferred from performance on puzzles involving numbers, words and pictures. By the 1980s, however, there was increasing emphasis on the idea that different types of human tasks require different types of intelligence. But throughout the 1900s psychologists occasionally tried to give general definitions of intelligence - initially usually in terms of learning or problem-solving capabilities; later more often in terms of adaptation to complex environments.

https://www.wolframscience.com/reference/notes/1178a

So, back to that evidence. Famous Hungarian chess player László Polgár had a theory that geniouses aren't born but are created in the right environment. He and his wife raised several children of which two became the best female chess players in the world, also known as the Polgár sisters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1sz ... olg%C3%A1r

Unfortunately for the sake of discussion, Polgár didn't conduct his experiments on adopted children so therefor we can never truly use his study in a debate about genetical inheritance. I for one do not believe, or see any indication of any possibility, that he would ever be able to do the same with street children from Somalia.

Even if we don't inherit intelligence, whatever it may be, we definitely inherit the circumstances in which intelligence thrives and grows. We are definitely genetically drawn to our interests based on unique characteristics. We definitely become good at things that we do often and enjoy doing, or have the proper discipline to conduct either way. Motivation, creativity, problem solving capabilities and critical thinking is definitely best developed in the circumstances that allows it. Those circumstances are genetically and socially inherited from external factors that we can't control.

BOFH wrote:The whole project assumes that winning a Nobel's prize makes you a genious.

Gold.

Good job vlad, you spotted an obviously legitimate qwerty layout typo made in my third spoken language. How many languages can you speak again? Meanwhile, you're overusing dashes about dwarf penises. I couldn't even be bothered pointing that out but here comes the typo correction unit.

If you want to criticize me at least do it with class. I don't even use a spellchecker. Oh well, good job vladimir.

You should mock me for the Hungarian spelling instead. Zseni. Do you know how to pronounce that?

So I guess that some of you know your IQ scores , get them out on the table .

Mine was tested as a naughty child at 13-15 over 2 years and was in 139 to 141 range which puts me in the superior bracket.
I always thought the IQ test was strange, while taking it my thoughts where like but when would a situation like that ever occur when presented with the strange question.

All that said I do find I fall asleep taking to most people so maybe I am superior in intelligence or just rude.

I guess BOFH has an IQ in the 130-145 zone and Vlad 76- 86

Around 124 many years ago. I remember how much it bothered me that I felt some answers being too obvious and then tricked into answering something else. Lost a lot of time that way. The test I took was limited by time, don't remember how many hours but it wasn't years.

Average IQ of Cambodian university students is reportedly 71 (1993), 65 (2008) and 86 (2011), 76-86 for their teachers may not be too far off actually! http://humanvarieties.org/2014/06/12/hvgiq-cambodia/

There is a "Take an IQ test" ad hanging near one of the universities on Russian blvd. I'll try to get the details the next time I pass by.

Ed Hammer wrote:So I guess that some of you know your IQ scores , get them out on the table .

Mine was tested as a naughty child at 13-15 over 2 years and was in 139 to 141 range which puts me in the superior bracket.
I always thought the IQ test was strange, while taking it my thoughts where like but when would a situation like that ever occur when presented with the strange question.

All that said I do find I fall asleep taking to most people so maybe I am superior in intelligence or just rude.

I guess BOFH has an IQ in the 130-145 zone and Vlad 76- 86

The trouble with an IQ test is that only measures what an IQ test measures. It may be a measure of intelligence (though that is also debatable) but it's certainly not THE measure of intelligence.

BOFH wrote:Good job vlad, you spotted an obviously legitimate qwerty layout typo made in my third spoken language.

No , I wasn't making fun of you, seriously, I thought the mistake had a beautiful irony to it.

You can go way back on my posts, and for ages now, the ONLY time I've ever been a grammar Nazi was when some cunt was being pretentious and looking down on other people, usually for being uneducated, or some inbred was running down teflers yet not spelling properly himself. Were you doing that? No. So chill.

Jesus, seriously, I promise you, I just found the mistake amusing, not you, i thought it was very apt, in a Midway school for the gifted kind of way.

If an apology will help, you have it.

RE Hungarian, I'd probably get it my best friend at university was a guy called Synisz Wobacewski, and he taught me a shitload about eastern-European names.

Maybe...like Jenny, but a soft zh at the beginning, or Zhee-knee?

Are we good now?

i think someone needs to find an actual decent online IQ Test (im sure theres plenty about) and we should get all the members who give a shit to take the test and post their results and what country theyre from

Jamie_Lambo wrote:i think someone needs to find an actual decent online IQ Test (im sure theres plenty about) and we should get all the members who give a shit to take the test and post their results and what country theyre from

The problem is also that IQ is not equal to nice, nor to success, but people often ignore that

230-240 IQ