not a debate topic, just a semantic argument

performative pedantry

I think that’s a great way of describing this post =/

Yeah, @mrpotato needs to bring some evidence to the table. Claims should be substantiated by evidence. if you’re trying to debunk someone else’s claim which is substantiated with evidence, you definitely need evidence.

If you cant install Linux on it, you don’t own it, and its important to own your own data.

what is the debate here? this study only had 80 participants, and has barley any citations =/

Here’s the full paper in case anyone is interested: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/S0005-7894(05)80039-5

Here’s the citations on google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=7045687540461565868

Many were very intelligent

Citation needed

Capitalism often favors intelligence.

This is what capitalists want you to think, just like how kings passed off the “god chose us” lie. in reality they’re mostly psychopaths who inherited everything.

You should make this a separate debate post if you want to continue that debate.

Subjecting others seems like it would take a large feat of intelligence seeing how most people don’t like being told what to do.

I think the blatant stupidity of kings past serves to debunk that

neither capitalism nor democracy promotes intelligence unfortunately.

But if its true intelligence is hereditary

Not true. Smart people have dumb kids all the time…

intelligence makes one more likely to make more money

This is not actually true. Subjugating others is the easiest way to make money. Being a psychopath will probably help you out more than intelligence.

isn’t the fact that their parents had money and they passed their classes an indication that their genes are expressing intelligence?

But unintelligent people will clearly not spend their money wisely

Both statements incorrectly assume all people have the same opportunities

Over what time period?

I think for the last 100 years this is more of a fact than a topic of debate =/

Pretty much all fascist parties pretend to be servants of the populace and end up murdering hella dissidents. The USSR and Nazi Germany were quite similar in that regard.

The Nazi party was only in power for a few years though =/

Education level is mostly a measure of wealth.

People who are concerned about racial disparities in IQ are typically trying to prove that “white people are inherently smarter”. I’m demonstrating the flaws with that assessment.

How much money your parents had is a better predictor of getting a PhD than anything I would imagine.

Education plays a large role in one score on an IQ test, and I doubt this is corrected for that, so it more a test of average education level per race.

To quote wikipedia:

a systematic analysis by William Dickens and James Flynn (2006) showed the gap between black and white Americans to have closed dramatically during the period between 1972 and 2002, suggesting that, in their words, the “constancy of the Black-White IQ gap is a myth.”

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