[extropy-chat] you owe it to me to be funny: was IQ vs Uploads

[Dirk Bruere]

spike wrote:

>>... Dirk Bruere
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>>>What most needs analysis are changes that are not captured in existing
>>>trends. IQ has been increasing and that has had effects for a long time.
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>>At around 3 points per decade...
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>I had always assumed that this effect was a sort of 
>optical illusion caused by our increasing ability to
>take IQ tests, perhaps from schools emphasizing such
>training, but I am now rethinking that notion.
>
>On a recent trip to Oregon, I listened to recordings
>of old time comedy routines, classic stuff that has
>survived the ages: Who's On First by Abbott and Costello,
>off-color gags by WC Fields and Mae West, Fibber McGee
>and Molly, etc, riffs from mostly the 30s and 40s.  The 
>routines were not nearly as insightful, sophisticated 
>or subtle as modern comedy.  
>
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>
I recall my grandmother telling me about how, at the outbreak of WW1, 
gangs of people went around beating Dachshunds to death because they 
were 'German' dogs. I believe the Flynn Effect is very real and no 
illusion at all.

-- 
Dirk

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