<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 7:44 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We may be at, or nearing, or possibly even past, the peak average intelligence of our species, depending on how it is measured, and that last phrase is very important. I know we have these IQ tests and performance is going up. But we may be fooling ourselves.</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote>No offense, spike, but making conclusions based on that is a fallacy just like assuming that there must be other civilizations out there just because there are so many stars.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
Sure, we may be. Or we may not be. The hard, non-anecdotal evidence - the IQ tests and performance, as you mention - suggests we are not. Therefore the most likely conclusion is that we are not.<br></div></div></div>