Incidentally this article is related.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/city-corporates-destroy-best-minds
Originally posted by Robtard
Agreed, but wouldn't an influx of intelligence help alleviate th problems we face in politics?
True. But so would not voting for morons.
It's a vicious cycle. Moronic politicians enact shitty education policies that create more morons who agree with and thus vote for morons.
That's how you end up with great statistics like 13% of American science teachers teach creationism/intelligent design as fact or 20% of Americans believe the sun orbits the earth or that 75% of Republican senators and 53% of Congress deny climate change.
Originally posted by jaden101
True. But so would not voting for morons.It's a vicious cycle. Moronic politicians enact shitty education policies that create more morons who agree with and thus vote for morons.
That's how you end up with great statistics like 13% of American science teachers teach creationism/intelligent design as fact or 20% of Americans believe the sun orbits the earth or that 75% of Republican senators and 53% of Congress deny climate change.
I think u missed his point
Originally posted by jaden101
2 and 3 typically advance 1.4 seems to try it's best to hamper 1,2 &3
4 is actually what keeps 1-3 going.
Using the textbook definition that politics is who gets what, when, and how.
But yeah, the complete and utter lack of ethical behavior from pretty much everybody sure doesn't help. I blame the 1980's for making Gordon Gekoing cool..
Aside from mental disabilities and physiological traits people are completely molded by their environments. Children with strict parents who treat them right and encourage them academically are going to be more suited for academia than children with abusive parents in squalid living conditions.
The problem is that these children will develop their own interests. You can't take someone who really excels at mathematics—and spends a lot of spare time on playing with mathematical problems—and expect him to be motivated as a politician.
Twin adoption studies say you're wrong, as does quite a bit of evidence, both scientific and anectodal. Intelligence is about as hereditary as height (so, very). That's why two siblings raised in identical environments can sometimes turn out drastically differently, or why twins separated at birth and reunited in adulthood almost always report being incredibly similar to one another.
The environment has a substantial impact on other things like personality traits and especially ideologies, but to suggest that it's all nurture and no nature is just empirically wrong.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
Twin adoption studies say you're wrong,
Originally posted by The Ellimist
That's why two siblings raised in identical environments can sometimes turn out drastically differently,
If one of the siblings has a friend that introduces him to a sport that he later develops into a career, then yes he's going to be different from the sibling who never had an interest for sports.
Originally posted by The Ellimist
The environment has a substantial impact on other things like personality traits and especially ideologies, but to suggest that it's all nurture and no nature is just empirically wrong.