The Glade 4.0

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/26/li ... tml?hpt=C2




hehe. I will point out in the spirit of fairness that intelligent people make mistakes too and are known to be wrong.

People can't be truly concerned about the well being of 15-20 people. Its a physiological limit.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

So, what Kanazawa is telling is that those who are more intelligent tend to look for things to do/believe that are against the norm.

Or:

In either case these beliefs have little to do with the veracity of their "against the grain" stances, and more to do with the people themselves.
That's pretty telling.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

106 is not "smart".

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Intelligence does not equal wisdom.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Unconventional? Haven't these guys visited a college campus lately? Hell, I'm even in conservative Utah and I meet far more people who would consider themselves liberal than anything else in my classes and stuff.

But I definitely agree that in general people would like you to believe that they're smart when they tell you they're liberal.

I've known some really "intelligent" people who make horrible decisions.

Intelligence doesn't cure laziness, apathy, poor social skills, recklessness, and many other such character flaws. A high intelligence is secondary to many other traits in advancing a person's well-being.

Makes sense to me. Men are chest thumping whores that'll shag everything that moves, and only the smart ones can resist.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I find the definition they use for liberalism vs. conservatism in that study interesting. It changes the meaning vs. what many readers would probably assume had they skimmed the article.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

They interviewed kids. People's brains and philosophies aren't completely formed until their late 20's at the earliest.

http://web1.tch.harvard.edu/dream/summe ... brain.html

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In time, this too shall pass.

I wonder if that's always been the case, or if this has resulted from our increased longevity? In other words, whe the average life expectancy was 30 years, did the brains develop the entire time or were they developed by, say 18?

I doubt it. Part of the reason life expectancy is so low in earlier eras is the infant and childhood moratlity rate. People who survived to adulthood generally did expect to live considerably longer than age 30.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Yeh, with a LE of 30, we'd have 16 year olds having mid-life crises.

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Holy shitsnacks!