On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Tim Maroney wrote:
> "Intelligence scores are rising, James R. Flynn discovered--but he remains
> very sure we're not getting any smarter."
Which is total nonsense, of course. A century ago I would have been
planting potatoes and loiter around in homespun all of my life. Yechhh.
Raising a kid in such an environment would mean subjecting it to acute
experience deprivation, with very measurable results both in IQ test and
"smarts". Nowadays, you have to actively flee the world to live in such
conditions.
-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a>
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