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Old 08-May-2008, 03:20 PM
tommac tommac is offline
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Default corellations of intellegence

I would like to figure out what benefits intelligent people have over others. Basically I would like to draw correlations based on level of intellegence.

Personally I think 80% of the population is dumb. I guess that would mean that 20% are smart with lognormal distribution. I guess one could argue that 50% are dumb and 50% are smart.

I also feel that dumb people cost way more than what they produce and are to some extent really bringing at least the US down ... and I am sure other countries.

I would like to see the following things with correlations on intellegence:

teenage pregnancy
hard drug use
gang membership
family abuse
child abuse
assult
pop music


Now I know that some of these things are from poverty ... so I think that is hard to factor out. I agree that these things may be higher for poor people and I can understand that. But I am more interested in drawing the lines to see if intellegence comes into play.
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