@bitofhope @swlabr

... but, apparently, if your parents were particularly bright humans and mine were relatively dim humans, but we then got adopted by the same family and given the same educational opportunities etc., the chance that you will end up brighter than me is only very slightly better than 50/50.

@DiabolicalBird @SomethingWentWrong I am trying really hard tokeep the hope that this is the thing that is finally too disgusting, too hard to ignore, and finally sinks them - remember Chris Alexander and Kellie Leitch announcing the "barbaric cultural practices" snitch line?

I honestly don't know if Trudeau would have become PM without that, and the nationwide wave of disgust it created.

@DiabolicalBird @SomethingWentWrong
And to remember, hope isn't just a thing to help you sleep well at night - it's a thing to drive your actions during the day. Don't just silently pray that this makes a province-wide wave of revulsion for the UCP - help make that wave real.

@bitofhope @swlabr

If you click enough links, you get to this substack article which I think all the discussion is about. https://theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/no-intelligence-is-not-like-height

Which indicates that IQ is a little bit heritable, just much less than other traits and with way more confounds.

Which, when you think about the extreme examples, makes sense - if your parents were humans, and mine were golden retrievers, you will be a human and I will be a golden retriever, and you will almost certainly have a higher IQ than me.

@[email protected] I love that the conclusion is "they were Homo Sapiens alright, they were just kinda funny looking."