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Why Is High Intelligence So Rare?
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FranklinMichaelV.3
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I always figured Intelligence is marked by access to what you have. I thought that there were people out there who were intelligent but unfortunately did not have access to education, wealth, or care that would allow that intelligence to grow.
What do you mean rare? I thought all humans have high intelligence.
If "high" intelligence were more successful it would be renamed "average" intelligence. Looking at the evolution of humans I'd say high intelligence has been relatively successful.
Skwim
Veteran Member
Because other modes of "strategy" serve the organism well enough to insure the survival of its species.
LOL, I feel your pain Phil. :yes:
If we are going to resurrect this old thread let me light a match to it.
I have always thought making money was a sign of applying intelligence. Sure, the folks who teach with Doctorates are smart, and they may be above living a life of luxuary, but I have never seen making too much money as problematic.
You call always give it away to awesome causes if you want to be a noble person.
People who are so smart who cannot make money to me is like having bosoms on a boar hog. :beach:
If you want to impress me with your intelligence, make a million and donate it to something worthwhile. If you cannot accomplish this small task, your intelligence is useless in my opinion.
What good is intelligence if you cannot apply it to the greater good?
Sha'irullah
رسول الآلهة
Imagine all creatures having heightened intelligence and being bothered with the woes that come with it. Look at mankind over the millennia.
It all comes down to purpose I guess. All animals suit a role which is fulfilled on a genetic level of consciousness. Rather complex to a greater degree.
It all comes down to purpose I guess. All animals suit a role which is fulfilled on a genetic level of consciousness. Rather complex to a greater degree.
CaptainNobody
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Part of it is how we take measurements on intelligence. Like everything else (height or weight), intelligence follows a normal distribution. Thus, there will always be a larger number of average people, rather than a large number of highly intelligent people. A reliable measure of general intelligence, IQ is also set so that the average IQ is 100; thus if on average everyone was intelligent as Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking, there would still be more "average" people than very intelligent people.
There is some evidence, however, that under optimal conditions, the average intelligence was slowly increasing in developing nations. Either that, or IQ tests have gotten easier.
The Flynn effect is an observation of the substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day. Ulric Neisser estimates that using the IQ values of today the average IQ of the United States in 1932, according to the first StanfordBinet Intelligence Scales standardization sample, was 80. Neisser states that "Hardly any of them would have scored 'very superior,' but nearly one-quarter would have appeared to be 'deficient.'" He also writes that "Test scores are certainly going up all over the world, but whether intelligence itself has risen remains controversial."
There is some evidence, however, that under optimal conditions, the average intelligence was slowly increasing in developing nations. Either that, or IQ tests have gotten easier.
The Flynn effect is an observation of the substantial and long-sustained increase in intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day. Ulric Neisser estimates that using the IQ values of today the average IQ of the United States in 1932, according to the first StanfordBinet Intelligence Scales standardization sample, was 80. Neisser states that "Hardly any of them would have scored 'very superior,' but nearly one-quarter would have appeared to be 'deficient.'" He also writes that "Test scores are certainly going up all over the world, but whether intelligence itself has risen remains controversial."
The doomsday clock has shown five minutes to midnight before and it will again. There is also a chance it will reach midnight and we blow ourselves to bits.
All surviving animals will then have been more intelligent than us.:sarcastic