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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
It's about the entitlement people feel... They government owes them something, a living, a job.
Old school stuff... You need to get out there and do it for yourself. Being hungry for success makes you sharp. I truly believe that hardworking, disciplined people make good choices in life.
How to realy harm someone? Give them everything on a silver platter and take the struggle out of their life.
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As the author makes clear in the last paragraph, the study is talking about innate intelligence, not the kind that results from environmental factors. Factoring in the social environment, intelligence has risen since the 1940s.
Back to the subject, I think there are three factors:
High IQ women tend to have fewer children
Modern medicine keeps low intelligence people alive longer and gives them more opportunities to reproduce
Society treats mental retardation differently. Low intelligence people aren't kept behind closed doors by their families anymore, they are out in the population breeding.