Reply to: Natural selection in action

[vetran]

I'll have to find that .

Apparently a close watch of this is meant to be closer to our current mores

he doesn't know how to use the shells!

[NigelJK]

This film was a documentary, not fiction.

I'll have to find that .

Apparently a close watch of this is meant to be closer to our current mores

[SueEllen]

There is surviving and there is being the richest man on the planet. I put my money on Musk being brighter than Dhoogy!

d000hg probably has a higher EQ.

[d000hg]

There is surviving and there is being the richest man on the planet. I put my money on Musk being brighter than Dhoogy!

Do you equate IQ and "being bright"? My old maths teacher always used to say that IQ tests are really only a measure of how good you are at IQ tests.
Elon is clearly a very smart and (more importantly) very driven person but if you look at his tweets and past controversies I'm not sure I'd say he's very bright in how he acts.

I think I'd say Elon has a wider mind than most of us not necessarily intrinsically smarter. He's able to drive multiple big-picture projects at once, largely successfully, while still having quite a good engineering background. There's a reason he was an inspiration for Tony Stark's character in the MCU films.

[vetran]

Doesn't mean his children will. I remember reading that your off-springs IQ goes towards the average generations on.

Also you need more than a high IQ to survive in the world.

There is surviving and there is being the richest man on the planet. I put my money on Musk being brighter than Dhoogy!

[SueEllen]

I suspect he would beat almost all of us on the board in any IQ test.

Doesn't mean his children will. I remember reading that your off-springs IQ goes towards the average generations on.

Also you need more than a high IQ to survive in the world.

[vetran]

Not the middle one.

I suspect he would beat almost all of us on the board in any IQ test.

[vetran]

I know. But the two are not the same, they are not interchangeable terms and this was written by their science editor. Any GCSE textbook explains this.

Us fundamental bible thumpers aren't used to having to explain this stuff to the scientists

Evolution is the product of natural selection. If Frogs with 6 toes have an advantage then there are more of them surviving and breeding, eventually almost all frogs have 6 toes therefore frogs have evolved.

To be fair they are separate and should be explained separately.

[SueEllen]

Children, IQ or cash?

Not the middle one.

[d000hg]

Good job Musk is picking up the slack

Children, IQ or cash?

[Paracelsus]

Good job Musk is picking up the slack

[d000hg]

Natural selection does.

I know. But the two are not the same, they are not interchangeable terms and this was written by their science editor. Any GCSE textbook explains this.

Us fundamental bible thumpers aren't used to having to explain this stuff to the scientists

[ladymuck]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

This film was a documentary, not fiction.

[vetran]

Yeah because in countries where people don't help the poor, they all died out. No poor in Africa or India at all these days.

A greater proportion of the poor die in Africa & India but they produce more offspring.

[vetran]

No they're not. Evolution doesn't function over the course of a few generations.

Natural selection does. If a new disease that causes infertility arrives that 10% have immunity to then 90% of the population dies in that generation the remainder get free access to the resources and expand.

We are artificially removing the more educated from the breeding pool.

Or it may have been caused by the B word!