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Re: Re: Global warming and evolution: here's a discussion point.
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
Yeah... I saw this yesterday. Even setting aside some of the more questionable reasoning there, this doesn't really tell us anything.
We don't know why higher temperatures appear to correlate with minutely lower IQs, and if there is a relationship, we have no reason to think that it's linear or even that the relationship remains similar across a wider temperature spectrum (in fact, I personally doubt the highest IQs would be associated with the lowest possible temperatures.)
We don't know whether it affects all individuals, or only some subset of individuals, nor whether the mechanism by which it might affect IQ is manipulable.
And frankly, even if we take the information at face value and just assume that IQ drops linearly, universally, and unavoidably with increasing temperature, we're looking here at a variance of about 1.5 points on the IQ scale over a temperature variance of about 32 degrees. Even in the worst-case global warming scenario, we'd be hard pressed to lose a single point off the average IQ due to this effect. Of course, in that case the net effect on mean IQ would probably be positive, since such extreme global warming would cause much greater mortality amongst traditionally low-IQ groups. So bring 'er on, I say. |
I questioned global warming and i was beat down , so in theory it should be 100'F here in england for me to dare be as dumb as question global watsitcalled
but im not , its early july and im here with the fire on full
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