I remember seeing a lot of people expand their horizons on all kinds of topics when the internet first started catching on.

Now I think it was because they were actively looking for understanding something new, and did not represent the general population.

Now I think it was because they were actively looking for understanding something new, and did not represent the general population.

Assuming that intelligence (and I don’t mean IQ or any other psychometric “proxy” for intelligence, but intelligence as an abstract trait) is normally distributed like most other traits, 50% of people are going to be dumber than average because in normal distributions the mean is the median.

And anyone trying to claim that intelligence as a concept is a completely socially constructed trait and that there is no difference in intelligence between people can shove it up their ass.