Message from @Kalier
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no it doesn't
no values like future-orientation or other heritable traits
IQ is largely heritable
personality traits are 50-70% heritable
a culture as a meta-structure may adopt population scale traits as valuable
and some of those traits certainly play a bigger role at creating higher civilization than others
yes
If a culture is very conservative, there will be no progress
Example some african cultures
again, that largely depends on the general intelligence and personality traits of the population at hand
The intelligence depends of the culture and the way of life
@Kalier Progress is only necessary if the environment changes
in a traditionalist culture
What is the antonym of tradition?
Drawing a blank here
intelligence depends very little on culture / way of life. extensive twin research demonstrates this
its mostly heritable
and nutrition?
nutrition is a red herring, historically speaking
its not really a distinct variable in the civilization building eras we're discussing
In Africa, IQ is low because of poverty
Oh my
Human intelligence is highly heritable.
http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v16/n10/abs/mp201185a.html
maybe IQ and poverty have a mutual causal relationship
Black children raised in White households have similar IQ scores to Black children in Black households.
http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1977-07996-001
IQ is one of the genetic population scale traits that determines the appropriate civilizational level
IQ is low, so everybody is poor, so nobody has the resources to improve IQ, so everybody gets poorer, etc.
and in that way is connected to poverty
but low IQ does not stem from poverty
the only resource for improving IQ is to select genetically for it over the long run
Do you believe in Evolution? Because the humanity is from Africa
thus, IQ decreasing by one SV in the west in the last few hundred years
...so?
Okay, so I'm calling this out.
The genetic doesn't influence, only the culture and your social class
We're being trolled.
I do believe in evolution which is why i don't believe that someone distinct populations are completely the same
yeah definitely troll
I refuse to participate in this anymore.
Troll?