<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">There too many things to copy and paste, so I'll just start at the top:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">If you took a sample of people today whose average IQ was 150 and then followed their children, there would be regression to the mean. However, if you eliminate people below 150 then the average is no longer 100 and will not be regressed to.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">There is ample evidence in the emails above to show that IQ is still strong. Whatever it measures, it correlates with more other things than any other variable. It even correlates somewhat with creativity, but that is suspect because we cannot agree on a measure of creativity. Mozart's IQ is estimated at 190, but Beethoven's at 120 max. And Beethoven was likely the better innovator. IQ even correlates with moral levels, like Kohlberg's.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">So until the neuropsychologists figure out some way to test brains more directly, IQ will last and last.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Off on a tangent and a question for every one but teachers especially:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I noticed over the 35 years of teaching that as a term progressed the people that I came to know who performed at the top on my tests morphed - the girls especially. They became more attractive to me. But there was one guy who I would have voted as the ugliest person I've seen who got top grades and somehow lost his ugliness.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Anyone else experienced this?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:13 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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">On Behalf Of </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Tara Maya<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 10, 2015 3:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<span class=""><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] re end of world<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>I don’t think people would regress to lower IQs, but perhaps the fashion industry and monster truck shows would collapse.<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span>Tara Maya<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">On the contrary Tara. Both examples you gave, fashion and monster trucks, appeal to the reptilian cortex in the brain. I have found it most amusing to learn that even after we understand the reptilian cortex is the seat of our baser desires such as fighting, sex, eating as so forth, it still works just the same. Knowing that we have a reptilian cortex doesn’t make it go away.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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