Douglas_Knight comments on Open Thread, September 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 02 September 2012 04:40:07AM 4 points [-]

When people say that it's "too fast," they are making a quantitative claim. The Flynn effect is a standard deviation per generation. Under your scenario of no selection on women, this would require that the bottom half of the bell curve to have no biological children. 50% cuckoldry, perfectly correlated with IQ? Even men who think they've been cuckolded don't have that high a rate.