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0 pointsvilmosi8y ago0 comments

IQ just means potential not capability. Given enought time I believe most people can be trained to do almost any job.

I don't think our brain suddenly evolved in 200 years from illiterate peasants to software engineers. We just have more school time these days.

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sunir8y ago· 2 in thread

Since it is empirically obvious that 200 years ago the world was not entirely populated by illiterate peasants ...perhaps your population model of the distribution of IQ and causes thereof is inaccurate.

vilmosiOP8y ago

Not entirely but the vast majority. It's empirically obvious writting existed 200 years ago therefore someone somewhere knew how to write.

What do you think people did before the industrial revolution?

sunir8y ago

A lot.

thaumasiotes8y ago

> IQ just means potential not capability.

Ok, you can say that.

> Given enough[] time I believe most people can be trained to do almost any job.

That's a statement about potential, not capability.

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