Idiots don't have the ability to commit genocide. That's why all of the famous "evil" people in the world have all been very intelligent.

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When you think about it though, everyone has done something extremely stupid in their lives. Technically we are all idiots at some point. Besides, have you heard of the Darwin Awards? They are given to people who help the human race by removing themselves from the gene pool. In other words, they die really stupid deaths doing really stupid things. It's just a matter of choice whether or not someone does something idiotic.

It doesn't matter what conditions exist in the world, it will always be filled with idiots who make wrong decisions over and over again or who don't apply proper knowledge to things. It's not at all practical to say that the world is going to fail because of idiots -- the world will fail due to the actions of everyone making improper decisions about issues that will effect us all in the long run.

Its pretty much the opposite here all my friends are science geeks and math nerds and...........

OH PLEASE Arts is soooooooo much better

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YORK; Honors Arts - History Major/German minor? '12

I agree that everyone has done something dumb in the past. But I guess idiots are the ones that never learn from their mistakes...and keep repeating it over and over again...

You sound as if its a good idea to "elimate" people if they are not smart enough as if they are not worthy to live
who are you to say that
natural selection is a load OF CRAP
since we came so far in out technology
we should let all people live their life and its not up to people trying to be god

that is really sad taht u see life like dat
hitler thought the same way u knoe

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SuMmEr 08 iS hErE !!!<done high school; gonna live it up....b4 i go 2 uni>

Ignorance is what keeps the ruling elite in power. Making sure the general populace is content with following the latest gossip, buying the latest fashionable crap and subscribing to consumerism when there is peace and using nationalism to control the crowds when there is war. That's just the basics of 'controlling a large amount of people 101'.

Our excuse of a society needs a large amount of ignorant citizens to function

If you want to read a good book about how human's are dumb.. and how we are going to end up being the end of the world.. you should consider reading This Other Eden by Ben Elton. It'll make you laugh and realise how screwed we really are.

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The Riddler: For if knowledge is power, then a GOD AM *I*!
[pauses]
The Riddler: Was that over the top? I can never tell.

eugenics is an emotionally charged word associated with all the wrong events in history. Hitler's "eugenics" program was a fiction, his way of creating some validation for his arbitrary persecution of various groups of people.

I think the much bigger issue here is whether the whole idea is true. are two people who could be considered idiots actually going to have "idiot" babies? Is intelligence hereditary? don't just say yes because "i know this guy with a dumb mom and dad and he's an idiot so yeah" because that's only one example. I have yet to see an actual scientific study done on the matter.

^^ You or an institution that you belong to need to (if you already have been given a university e-mail and password, you might be granted access) have a subscription to science journals to read the actual studies done to find the correlation between heredity and intelligence. Seeing as that won't be so easy for you, check out this: http://online.sfsu.edu/~psych200/unit7/76.htm. Look for the chart about a fifth of the way down.

Essentially what it is saying is that there is a correlation of 0.63 (1.00 being the max, 0 being random) between the intelligence of fraternal twins (twins in that they are carried at the same time, but they are related to one another in the way that non-twin siblings are related to one another) and a correlation of 0.88 (a VERY strong correlation) between identical twins (100% genetically related). Studying twins "reared together" involves making the assumption that both the identical and fraternal twins share a very similar environment. The deduction from there is that the difference between the two correlations must be due to genetic differences, not environmental differences. Although the assumption is flawed (e.g. identical twins are always of the same sex, obviously, but fraternal twins can be of the opposite sex... so maybe the difference between the intelligence of two opposite sex fraternal twins is due to the fact that they are of the opposite sex and are, therefore, raised differently), the difference is too strong to be reasonably explained by subtle differences in the environment. However, you can also see that identical twins reared apart are not as closely correlated as identical twins reared together, so the environment also plays a role. Perhaps the most compelling evidence is the correlation of 0.77 for identical twins reared apart. This means that identical twins are highly similar in intelligence even when they are raised by different parents. Of course, even that correlation is flawed: even though they are raised by different parents, most twins "separated at birth" are still raised in similar environments (it is usually not the case that one will stick around in an upper-middle-class family in Canada while the other heads off to some poor family in Ethiopia).

Do not try to interpret the correlations beyond that. e.g. a correlation of 0.88 does not mean that if you have identical twins reared together that there will be an 88% chance of them being of equal intelligence.

^ The OLD nature-nurture debate. Classic.

"Nurture" acts on "nature." Asking how much of a characteristic is attributable to nature and how much is attributable to nurture is like asking if the material of a building is more important in that building being a complete structure than the builders.

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Honours BMSc Specialization in Medical Science UWO '09
Bachelor of Pharmacy Alberta '13 ???