Vaniver comments on A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 18 December 2011 07:35:21PM 6 points [-]

No. But I'm disappointed people are so naive to actually suggest that testing for IQ directly may be more politically doable than just rigging the country and education quotas to get the same effect.

I suspect they were discussing desirability, not feasibility. If we, say, limited Indian migration to the US to just Gujaratis, we wouldn't get as good results as if we limited Indian migrants to the US to just those above IQ 120, even if Gujaratis are disproportionately represented among high IQ Indians.

I'm just bloody tired of the whole debate.

I understand and sympathize.

Comment author: CaveJohnson 20 December 2011 01:21:09PM 1 point [-]

I suspect they were discussing desirability, not feasibility. If we, say, limited Indian migration to the US to just Gujaratis, we wouldn't get as good results as if we limited Indian migrants to the US to just those above IQ 120, even if Gujaratis are disproportionately represented among high IQ Indians.

On the matter of desirability I tend to agree.