low IQ is mostly about genes, but it's also about nutrition

And a few other things

The impact of nutrition is pretty huge

Also, better nutrition causes better genes

So we should keep Kim in charge otherwise the hyperintelligent north koreans will take over the world in by subversive means?

Perhaps <:Veemote:501103628883591188>

A better way to formulate Snake's argument would be that Mutational Load played a negative part in driving IQ scores, which might've been offset by the gains due to Flynn Effect

@ETBrooD They probably had genes that supported high IQ better in 1914, even if our superior nutrition makes us have superior IQ.

No, the genes didn't change at all

Imagine losing what we gained since 1914.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-05-25/western-iqs-drop-14-points-last-century-study-says

@ETBrooD Why? The poor have more babies? How cannot that change the genes?

omg

How is it possible, if you acknowledge inheritability of IQ?

Mutational Load did occur

Fuck your Mutational Load and Spiteful Mutants.

The poor today are far better nourished than the poor in the early 20th century

That belongs into Cyberpunk and Hokuto no Ken.

As a result they perform far better on IQ tests now

People back then were barely even able to think in the abstract

Besides the middle and upper class of course

http://midus.wisc.edu/findings/pdfs/1749.pdf

So, is IQ inheritable or not? I really don't understand how you can hocus pocus away the fact that most intelligent people don't have the time to raise a family.

It's not a black and white argument

How can that not make high IQ a genetic dead end?

It is 50-80% heritable

I think even if these people got food it wouldn't fix that the majority of their populations are considered to have a mental disability

IQ is largely heritable AND IQ can be raised a lot with better nutrition

Both is true

That's why it's so important that before any IQ testing is done, the health of the individual is also tested

Ok. And what does it do to the genetic component of IQ in population if high IQ individuals in each time period choose not to breed?

Otherwise the IQ test can't properly predict success because it doesn't know if it's the peak IQ or not

And the poor ones do breed with govt handouts?

Better nutrition causes better genes

**WHAT!!!?!?**

^

Causes better genes?

WHAT THE FUCK!

Is that news to you?

Better nutrition can cause high IQ from **SAME GENES**.

Did you hear what I said?