Maggie's Farm

Yeah Trump was horrible. Helped negotiate the Abraham Accords WHILE fighting off a FBI coup. Worked to boost the American economy in the face of a hostile press AND half his party. Kept Putin in his own borders and kept the price of natural gas low(ish) in Europe while pressuring NATO leaders to pick up their TREATY OBLIGATION to pay, AND working to establish border security.

All of that in the face of a hostile press.

Meanwhile the Biden administration, well liked around the world, has a compliant, even activist press, has done things to make the war in Ukraine possible (basically raised the value of natural gas), has pissed off long time allies Saudi Arabia (whether we SHOULD have been allies with them is a reasonable question, but now is not the time to be pissing off a minor source of fuel for the US and a MAJOR source of fuel for Europe). They've created a massive crisis on the border that is all but ignored by the press, they've wrecked the American economy even further and they'r'e sowing the seeds of racial and class hatred.

Yeah, good thing Trump isn't in office any more, those mean tweets were *awful*.

As near as I can tell, every attempt to increase IQ after the age of 4 is pretty much a failure, and certainly after age 20. Maybe a point or two, but that's hardly worth the effort.

IQ is probably like most other physical characteristics, there is a genetic maximum, and then environment subtracts from that. Diet, early intellectual environment (parents talking to you, playing certain kinds of games etc.). This is why you see an increase in IQ in developing countries--they amount and quality of food goes up for a while (quality as in "provides the sort of nutrients a young brain needs to grow). You also see (generally) height increasing in these countries for the same reason.

And you see (some) parents in these countries emphasize education at younger ages.

Note that this is different than scoring well on any given IQ test.

[quote]It is simply a measure of how a person performs on a narrow set of questions compared to other people.[quote]

When someone puts lies like this at the top of an article I don't bother to read the rest.

There is a very high correlation between how one individual will do on various sets of "narrow questions".

I do regret that rather than dig into the reasons why African Americans and Latinos score so low on IQ tests, that the white liberals blame the test and the racists blame the race, but that is consistent with the pathologies inherent in each group.