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History disagrees. No im not going through two days worth of articles before keeping the same opinion.
The people currently at the very top of the food chain and through all history rarely got there through pure intelligence. It was money, family, and social status that put them there. One could argue intelligence can get those things but the difference between the extreme examples of those who were born with and those who earned it during ones life without a lucky chance are hardly comparable.
If you want to talk about world revolutionary intelligence then thats another story. Wait for AI to advance for that one though.
The IQ of a country’s rulers largely determines productivity and wealth. Source: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/57563/
The world’s thirty least intelligent countries (except for Haiti) are all in sub-Saharan Africa. Source: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8492613&fileId=S1832427400010045
Colder climates selected for higher IQ populations by imposing more complex survival requirements. Source: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8492613&fileId=S1832427400010045
IQ is the best known predictor of job performance for all studied occupations. Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijsa.12069/abstract
IQ scores predict life outcomes equally well for different races. Source: http://www.vdare.com/articles/indians-arent-that-intelligent-on-average
Feudal Britain had eugenic natural selection for rich individuals. Source: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/JEH2006.pdf#page=16
Immigration will reduce the average IQ of countries and lead to the collapse of Western civilization. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886911001073
Intelligence “is one of the best predictors of important life outcomes such as education, occupation, mental and physical health and illness, and mortality.” Source: http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v20/n1/full/mp2014105a.html
I’d say intelligence is pretty important
It has its value.
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