Humans haven't changed in millions of years...

hollowtrucker77 said:In my view, this discussion feels incredibly arrogant.
To start, I’d ask one question: was it harder for the first human to invent a tool like a spear or a bow, or is it harder for someone today to learn how to drive a car??
I would argue that people back then had to exert much more willpower and mental effort to achieve what we now take for granted as simple or outdated.
Unfortunately, I worry that as challenges disappear, so does the drive and necessity for intelligence. It feels like our species is regressing, both physically and mentally.
Someone living just 500 years ago was fully capable of surviving harsh, unknown environments, whereas most modern "intellectuals" would likely starve on a farm.

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That's spot on, despite the efforts of biased psychometricians to prove otherwise. They constantly design tests where people from developing nations, or marginalized and impoverished groups in the West, end up looking "unintelligent."
Even though their survival requires far more ingenuity than that of the privileged class.
Here are a few links regarding these psychometric "truths":

http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache🙏izwiSMEg_wJ👋ww.rso.cornell.edu/scitech/archive/95sum/bell.html+the+science+and+politics+of+iq&hl=en&gl=US&ct=clnk&cd=52

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/IQ/1950-2050/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man

When it comes to psychometrics, I think it’s worth pointing out that not too long ago, a person basically had to build their own shelter from scratch and forge their own survival tools just to stay alive, whereas nowadays most people struggle with the monumental task of picking out a decent product at Target or actually reading the damn instruction manual
but, we have this habit of patting ourselves on the back for being so brilliant while looking back at our "primitive" ancestors as if they were some kind of slow-witted cave dwellers
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