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What happens is that the new mean intelligence is 150+ (as by the
old scale), turning into a new normal distribution. (I ran a quick
Matlab test). <br>
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What is going on is that the intelligence is due to a lot of genes
adding about 1% or less each, so removing the <150 IQ population
mainly removes some very bad genes and decreases the somewhat bad
genes: there is still a lot of genetic diversity. So the new mean
goes up, but the variance stays about the same. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-09-10 23:15, William Flynn
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Mike
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> If all people with IQs below 150 became sterile,
would the gene pool that<br>
> was left eventually create a population averaging
100 IQ?<br>
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</span>Yes, because the 'average' is 100. That may be an
order of magnitude<br>
more capable, it would still be measured as 100.<br>
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In order words, you would effectively lower the IQ of
every survivor,<br>
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"lies, damned lies, statistics"<br>
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well, yes, I suppose I worded that awkwardly. What I
meant was, would the mental ability of the average
person who survived eventually regress to the mental
ability we now call IQ 100? I don't know enough
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