/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14570143
>>14570199
>I'm mad about things I don't understadn!

You may believe yourself to have an IQ well within the 99th percentile but you don't sounds very intelligent to me.

Firstly, your image is fucking retarded. 70% of the population has an IQ that is at or above average? That is, by definition, false. Also, even a cursory glance at normal distributions and their relation to the types of people ascribed to each IQ range is enough to realise this image, like most statements made about intelligence online is nonsense.

Secondly, your understanding of evolution seems pretty shoddy. There doesn't seem to me to be any evolutionary advantage to being a couple standard deviations above the average intellect, in fact, it may even be a disadvantage because more intelligent are more likely to pursue demanding professional or academic careers over childbearing, or less likely to have children young or "on a whim", or are more likely to be socially awkward and less likely of finding a mate, or are less likely to subscribe to any sort of dogmatism that lays down reproduction as a mandatory moral good. It's also worth noting that there are many, many more people of average intelligence that there are people of higher intelligence, especially if having an IQ below 120 makes one a "brainlet". Basically, just put an iota of thought into your feelings about the world before you shit them out.

Perhaps a little bit of a tangent here, but as far as I can see, intelligence is basically a evolutionary accident that stuck around because on a baseline level it was pretty useful, but it's difficult to see how it's evolutionary useful beyond a certain point. Intelligence is not going to make nearly as much of a contribution to the continuation of our species as many scientists would have you believe.

Also, there is absolutely fucking nothing wrong with watching tennis.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wallace-fun.html?mcubz=0

Fuck you and fuck your thread, OP. Pretending to be smart on the internet doesn't make you cool.