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[minestrone]

Actually history has shown that as business evolves opportunities grow if you look for them positively. Plenty of people without academic skills or achievements are emotionally or creatively intelligent in a way many geniuses would admire or aspire to if they bothered to look. Look at the barrow boy invasion of the city previously the preserve of public school boys.

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Why have staff when you can have robots?

Your maid won't want to re-enact pornhub with you.

I think finding smart people in poor households is less likely now. Intelligent bloodlines sometime crash and take a few generations to get back up, but the root causes like war, death of a young parent or getting unfairly financially shafted are just much less likely now.

Also psycho divergent people with Asperger's and the like who are often highly intelligent don't get flung in with the dingbats at school now.

[SueEllen]

I think finding smart people in poor households is less likely now. Intelligent bloodlines sometime crash and take a few generations to get back up, but the root causes like war, death of a young parent or getting unfairly financially shafted are just much less likely now.

Also psycho divergent people with Asperger's and the like who are often highly intelligent don't get flung in with the dingbats at school now.

Can I have the drugs you are on?

[vetran]

I think finding smart people in poor households is less likely now. Intelligent bloodlines sometime crash and take a few generations to get back up, but the root causes like war, death of a young parent or getting unfairly financially shafted are just much less likely now.

Also psycho divergent people with Asperger's and the like who are often highly intelligent don't get flung in with the dingbats at school now.

Aspergers & Autism are frequently found in children of less academic people. Whilst bloodlines do sometimes have advantages much of genius is random.

[d000hg]

Aspergers & Autism are frequently found in children of less academic people.

Are their known or suspected environmental causes/links to either of these conditions? A friend works in a special school predominantly autistic children and wa saying a while back autism has exploded something ridiculous like 5000% in recent years (might be 500, not certain but a lot) for instance.

[minestrone]

Intelligence is about 80% genetic. As unpalatable as the subject is to people, smart people have smart kids.

Free selective education after the war until the 70s pulled a lot of smart people out of the working class. We are now seeing diminishing returns and that is not down to teaching.

[d000hg]

Intelligence is about 80% genetic. As unpalatable as the subject is to people, smart people have smart kids.

There's a massive gaping hole in that argument.

[minestrone]

Are their known or suspected environmental causes/links to either of these conditions? A friend works in a special school predominantly autistic children and wa saying a while back autism has exploded something ridiculous like 5000% in recent years (might be 500, not certain but a lot) for instance.

This is exactly what i'm saying, smart people with some learning issues used to just get dumped into some remedial class. But now it's understood and education has developed the chances of that person fulfilling their academic potential and class standing is much higher.

[minestrone]

There's a massive gaping hole in that argument.

The science is settled on this now, where as the evidence was statistical before they now know the genes that are responsible for intelligence.

[d000hg]

This is exactly what i'm saying, smart people with some learning issues used to just get dumped into some remedial class. But now it's understood and education has developed the chances of that person fulfilling their academic potential and class standing is much higher.

Mild symptoms can be diagnosed as "slow" and bright parents are more on the balla bout this sort of thing but I'm talking about an explosion in people who are autistic enough they cannot attend regular schools - you don't see someone like that and not notice there's something awry.

[SueEllen]

The science is settled on this now, where as the evidence was statistical before they now know the genes that are responsible for intelligence.

There's a massive gaping hole in that argument.