[ExI] re end of world

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 21:46:20 UTC 2015


On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:12 PM, William Flynn Wallace
<foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If all people with IQs below 150 became sterile, would the gene pool that
> was left eventually create a population averaging 100 IQ?

Yes, because the 'average' is 100.  That may be an order of magnitude
more capable, it would still be measured as 100.

In order words, you would effectively lower the IQ of every survivor,

"lies, damned lies, statistics"



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