If everyone was as smart as what you call smart now, then they would all be average, and those who exceeded them would be called smart. Smart is a relative term of ranking or organizing people by a specific trait. The decisions to judge peoples abilities relative to the whole is a trait of human nature. People are smart or not smart because of their relationship to the norm. If people as a whole got dumber or smarter, there would still be inferiority and superiority because people don’t just judge other people against the perceived norm, but themselves. So the reason not everyone is smart is that the term smart simply means above average, and no matter how smart or dumb we get there will always be an average to judge against.
The answer is scientific, but it is not in the biology of what causes intelligence, but in the science of how we think and make decisions.
2007-03-20 02:55:48
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Under the influence of natural selection, the advantageous trait which was once a rare thing become a common trait of the species. Human as a species is far far intelligent than other species because of the effect of this natural selection. But unfortunately at present the forces of natural selection are not operating in humans because of monogamy, therapy etc. So if you want uniformity in IQ, the only way is cloning. The other alternative is opening up sperm banks of superior stock and in due course a large population with high IQ may be born than the present. However, under the present mode of human reproduction no change in IQ level can be expected. In fact, the IQ is on the decline because the general tendency is to have more children among the lower IQ group than the higher IQ group. So please don't blame God for all these things. We should blame ourselves for deviating from nature.
2007-03-20 00:44:52
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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Biologically the human race would rise no higher unless severe natural selection were to return or man were to employ an effective alternative to it Thus the effect of natural selection became so weakened that, among other things, it no longer resulted in further increases in the human brain. Now and then an increase of brain would occur, as in the past, but those increases no longer had the same selective advantage. As a consequence, that great and powerful organ in which, more than in any other way, humans excelled all other forms of life, ceased to develop further.
We know that in the late Villafranchian era, when Australopithecus lived, hominid brain size was still around 650cc, while some three or four hundred thousand years later, brain size had increased to 1500cc. This was an extraordinarily rapid rate of evolution. But then the curve suddenly flattened out and in the last 50,000 to 1,00,000 years there has been no increase in brain size at all.
There are two possible ways to change people. First, one can change the environments in which people grow up in the nutrition, sanitation, education, political systems etc. Secondly, one may strive to decrease the number of people born with hereditary defects of all kinds, and to increase the number with genes which favour the development of superior quality. It should be obvious that these are complementary and not complicating modes of action.
Psychologists have established beyond doubt that intelligence is inherited. Like all other inheritable traits, it may come from distant ancestors, rather than from the immediate parents, so that college professors sometime have dull sons and stupid parents sometimes have brilliant children, or the same family may have one bright, one average and one dull child. Nonetheless it works out by and large that brighter parents tend to have brighter children. The children of professional men have been shown to have the highest 1.Q’s (averaging around 115). A child born into a poor home often shows an improvement in 1.Q if adopted by a more intelligent and stimulating family. But the amount of improvement is always limited by the mental capacity that was there at birth.
Superior children come from superior lines or at least from good lines. Geniuses are never the offspring of mentally deficient parents. Likewise feeble-minded children come largely from stocks of inferior intelligence. They are not produced at random from the general population. It is clear that the general quality of the world’s population is not very high, is beginning to deteriorate and should and could be improved. In modern man the direction of genetic evolution has started to change its sign from positive to negative, from advance to retreat: we must manage to put it back on its age-old course of positive improvement.
2007-03-20 01:08:51
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answer #3
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answered by anne j 2
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I think that you're really not talking about God, but about a chance of genetic inheritance. Some people have blue eyes, some people have brown; some people are tall, and some are short; some people have a high inherent ability yto learn, while others have a lower ability. I believe it's largely in the genetic hand you're dealt at conception, not the purposeful actions of God; otherwise, I'd have to believe that God somehow "chose" some people to have birth defects, retardation, and similar problems, as well, and to me, that's just not how God operates.
2007-03-20 00:27:49
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answered by Anonymous
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The genomes carried from ancestors are the responsibility of the IQ levels (not only that, the colour, eyes, nose, blood, hairs, etc.,)
And u have failed to notice that if u have some thing minus u will be having something plus in u. Take Hellen Keller who suffered a lot physically triumphed at last.
The living example of Mr. Amitabh, who has been not selected for Army services and excelled in his public life.
2007-03-20 00:34:04
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answered by tdrajagopal 6
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all depends on the brain development in the womb. the longer the stay the smarter. try giving birth in 10 months. also the mental upbringing at ages 3 - 5 a todler can learn algebra faster and better than a 20 year old. but if you teach them algebra the baby may not learn more important primal skills like walking, running in a strait line. being self sufficient, poddy trainning and proper behaviors etc. older . it all depends on self study. all your intelect in college will depend on all the skills learned in elementary as simple as reading fast or the multiplication table. - in the GOD ISSUE if your religious ABSOLUTELY - your not born smart but god will make you smart SOLOMON was the wises, and god loves to DAMN people to ignorance too, he will say stuff like when his angry in the old testament "you and all of your seed and theirs will be cursed (with either) canser, leprosy, diabetes, insanity, or ignorance. of course its genetics and heredity. but they are superstitous people and this is how they explain why the grandfather, the father and the brother and uncles have the same hereditary sickness.(GOD cursed their clan ages ago .... wooooooo......lol) if your not so smart just STUDY .. YOU ARE WHAT YOU LEARNED UP TO THIS MOMENT. add this to your being
2007-03-20 00:31:50
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answer #6
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answered by Erizu 2
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In nature , it is due to heredity and environment. Neither the father nor the son of Einstein was a scientist. It is the God's gift to be born with intelligence, with required combination of chromosomes.
2007-03-20 08:15:28
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answer #7
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answered by jay 2
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There is more in this universe than your philosophy can teach you. Your karma is all. You come with an invisible burden of the consequences of your past deeds. Hence, the difference in the circumstances and the promises that different children are born with.
2007-03-20 00:28:07
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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i've got have been given my doubts that all people is born proficient as much as that all people is born sturdy. working example to me it sort of feels that some toddlers are needless to say undesirable and grow to be undesirable adults if no longer corrected for the period of their progression wherein case they could be okay yet in no way needless to say sturdy. the comparable is going for being proficient. some persons are born with abilities and a few no longer On ultimate of it opposite to they choose us to have self assurance society as an entire tend too discourage proficient people because of the fact it prefers to have an homogeneous non innovative and non thinking mass of those that does precisely what those in skill choose them to do and proficient people tend to be debatable because of the fact they dislike mediocrity for this reason they're the two discourage, or hushed. As a instructor and likewise a instructor of youngsters, in reality i'm a creativity instructor, i understand that i will liberate people's abilities plenty, yet all people has a private skill and ability that are diverse from one yet another. ordinary i stumble on that todays' persons are very "non-proficient" or that they had their presents dulled or killed off by utilising the plethora of rubbish that they see on a daily basis on television, or videos or study in the revealed media. that's, as we talk we've numerous volume yet close to 0 high quality of each and every thing or to place it evidently sheer mediocrity In a nutshell: television (or television lifestyle) has killed off communique yet to me additionally creativity.
2016-10-02 10:44:51
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answer #9
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answered by ? 4
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this question used to come in my mind 3 years ago, i did my little resarch, watch some documentary movies, the crux of all is that there is so much diversity on this planet, more in the solar system and much more in universe.
It is not for us to think about diversity in nature, but to do "Karma" perform duties that are assigned to.
the system of super-natural power is much beyond the understanding ability of human mind.
2007-03-20 13:33:18
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answered by Anonymous
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