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Aren't we most likely subject to artificial selection?

No, the process parents use to select their partners to produce children is not coordinated to change the gene pool of all humanity persistently. So there is no artificial selection happening. Though …
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How would you answer when tasked with the estimation of a person's intelligence?

The example seems not like a request to assess intelligence, but just a social ritual of asking to confirm a compliment regardless of your actual opinion, as a courtesy. … A proper assessment of intelligence could for many purposes be done via an IQ-Test, since the IQ is reasonably well linked to diverse cognitive skills that are related to intelligence. …
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Is there a general theory of intelligence and design that would allow us to detect the prese...

Intelligence can leave other obvious taxes, like depictions (cave paintings, hieroglyphs), that indicate mental processes during their creation. … So now objects had to be classified in 3 categories, those designed by gods, those designed by humans, and those emerging from nature without intelligence. …
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Why do people argue in favor of IQs, while then encouraging people (of any IQ) to use hard w...

Success is statistically correlated to various factors, IQ and hard work being two out of many. Some more examples: education frustration tolerance self-motivation discrimination (most beneficial bei …
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Can an intellect judge itself?

Does it have some sense to judge ourselves as smart or dumb? An intellect that can compare any two other minds can always also compare itself to other minds There is no single absolute scale about s …
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