Why Academics Leftists and Elitists Need to Treat Ordinary Americans With Respect

Jaw said:
We’ve gone on two of the student led tours of Harvard. Had good kids lead both. Someone asked the last guy about all the recent protests and how it impacted the feel of the school. He said he hadn’t had time to pay attention to it, but he had a *real* major. I was amused.
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I believe him…my experience at business school was the same (not Harvard, but a school with a similarly ridiculous political culture).
 
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An actual smart person doesn't spend a lot of time on what spoiled rich kids do. He/she has better thangs to do. Like mastering their subject matter.
 
Why should anyone feel disrespected because an analysis of ancient DNA of Europeans and contemporary DNA of Europeans shows natural selection favoring greater intelligence.

It is a great technical feat for Reich and his team to have shown this. It confirms that intelligent people are more likely to be successful in propagating their genes. Not a huge surprise, but a technically very impressive achievement.

Btw I highly recommend Reich's book:

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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New…

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nsacpi said:
Why should anyone feel disrespected because an analysis of ancient DNA of Europeans and contemporary DNA of Europeans shows natural selection favoring greater intelligence.

It is a great technical feat for Reich and his team to have shown this. It confirms that intelligent people are more likely to be successful in propagating their genes. Not a huge surprise, but a technically very impressive achievement.

Btw I highly recommend Reich's book:

www.goodreads.com

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New…

A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoun…
www.goodreads.com www.goodreads.com
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I would argue that intelligent people were more likely to propagate their genes. The welfare state has reversed that.
 
Jaw said:
I would argue that intelligent people were more likely to propagate their genes. The welfare state has reversed that.
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There is a paragraph in Reich's paper about very recent trends. In general, natural selection works on a timescale of thousands of years, which makes it challenging to say much about recent trends. Reich cites this paper, which looks at recent trends in one country (Iceland).

 
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