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Originally Posted by waltert
I can see how its possible that isolated populations could develop to have different average intelligences. in a "wild" society, it would be likely that the people would breed for physical prowess, whereas in an industrialized nation, intelligence becomes more of a factor for mate selection.
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I doubt that has been a factor for the last couple hundred years of the industrial revolution. How smart does one have to be to do factory work? (No disrespect to anyone who does it). You arguably have to be a smarter cookie to hunt or farm your own food than to insert bolt A into widget B a thousand times a day.
Arguably, it may become important in the techology age, but I work with a lot of techies - there's precious few I'd call "smart".