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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 10, 2015, at 3:15 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" class="">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Mike Dougherty <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">msd001@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:12 PM, William Flynn Wallace<br class="">
<<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" class="">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
> If all people with IQs below 150 became sterile, would the gene pool that<br class="">
> was left eventually create a population averaging 100 IQ?<br class="">
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</span>Yes, because the 'average' is 100. That may be an order of magnitude<br class="">
more capable, it would still be measured as 100.<br class="">
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In order words, you would effectively lower the IQ of every survivor,<br class="">
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"lies, damned lies, statistics"<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: small; display: inline;">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 genetics to answer that. bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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