![]() ![]() Overweight people, and especially people who feel unfairly stigmatized for being overweight, tend to cluster on the biologically determined side. These people get into some pretty acrimonious debates. Other people think it’s based purely on willpower – how strictly you diet, how much you can bring yourself to exercise. Some people think body weight is biologically/genetically determined. There’s a moral gulf here, and I want to throw stories and intuitions at it until enough of them pile up at the bottom to make a passable bridge. I hear these kinds of responses every so often, so I should probably learn to expect them. I’m sorry to leave self a self absorbed comment, but reading this really upset me and I just need to get this off my chest…How is a person supposed to stay sane in a culture that prizes intelligence above everything else – especially if, as Scott suggests, Human Intelligence Really Is the Key to the Future – when they themselves are not particularly intelligent and, apparently, have no potential to ever become intelligent? Right now I basically feel like pond scum. What I want to discuss now is people who feel personally depressed. ![]() This is important and I want to discuss it eventually, but not now. ![]() ![]() Some worry that taking it seriously might damage the “growth mindset” people need to fully actualize their potential. If you saw a group of dozens of people who were 7’0 tall on average, you’d assume it was a basketball team or some other group selected for height, not a bunch of botanists who were all very tall by coincidence.Ī lot of people find this pretty depressing. Since IQ this high only appears in 1/10,000 people or so, it beggars coincidence to believe this represents anything but a very strong filter for IQ (or something correlated with it) in reaching that level. I think most readers of this blog already know IQ is 50% to 80% heritable, and that it’s so important for intellectual pursuits that eminent scientists in some fields have average IQs around 150 to 160. Use the search feature of the table (In Red Box Below) to quickly find the required level.I sometimes blog about research into IQ and human intelligence. ![]()
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