The Inversion of the IQ Controversy.

THE INVERSION OF THE IQ CONTROVERSY

The IQ Controversy misses the point that it is not so much exceptional ability, which exists in all groups, that is so demonstrably advantageous for the GROUP, but the relative absence of lack of ability at the bottom end that is advantageous for the group. In other words, one can raise the average IQ of a group by trying to increase the number at the top, despite regression to the mean, or one can reduce the number at the bottom thereby changing the mean to which populations regress. And while we now know that lower intelligence is the product of accumulated defects, and that higher intelligence is the produce of eliminating defects, not necessarily any particular gain, the problem should be fairly obvious in that the greatest investment peoples can make in their present and future is the suppression of reproduction in the lower classes in exchange for redistribution.