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25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
It's fact now! BEAT THAT! now I can always use the argument that people from poverty stricken area's do and will have problems mentally.
Btw use of pedantism in this thread will be rewarded with an AMAGAD YOUR SO 1337 I WISH I TAUGHT THE WORLD ENGLEESH 2!!!! (if you can understand what I've said enough to correct it then you know what the **** I'm saying anyway).
So now I can say you know there's a very good chance you are dumber than me when addressing someone of lower socioeconomic status than me.
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9 May 2004, 23:47
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
Not really, no.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
todays sunday sun reports people in the north east are officially the worst for education, health etc in the country
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
you and statistics just dont get on do you ?
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
hmmm so far 100% here let's hope this is a demographical glitch.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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todays sunday sun reports people in the north east are officially the worst for education, health etc in the country
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I'm pretty sure I saw a 'report' recently that said the exact opposite.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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So now I can say you know there's a very good chance you are dumber than me when addressing someone of lower socioeconomic status than me.
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Wont you have to go to homeless shelters/ drug rehabilitation clinics to find someone of lower socioeconomic status that you tho you unemployed sponging ****?!
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
the sunday sun is gospel i felt ever so sorry for fat alan today too, at the gallagate end too, poor lad
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
Ah...our old friend, the suitably vague "cognitive tests".
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
Seeing as Ireland has a higher average income than Scotland I feel confident that I'm far more intelligent than sunday and thus feel no need to address this thread beyond the perfunctory "i hear there's nothing but average people out there".
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
its really only 25%, id thought it be higher than that... this isnt that supprising, lets see, why are people poor, they have bad jobs. why do people have bad jobs, (simple answere, not the only, accounting for the other 75) they had crappy education, why do the people have a crapy education, they were slow and they're parenters were poor, then just start the loop over again.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
omg! its all so clear now!
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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its really only 25%, id thought it be higher than that... this isnt that supprising, lets see, why are people poor, they have bad jobs. why do people have bad jobs, (simple answere, not the only, accounting for the other 75) they had crappy education, why do the people have a crapy education, they were slow and they're parenters were poor, then just start the loop over again.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
my god.....poverty creates undernourished children who dont have all the necessary vitamins/minerals to grow healthily.............
id never have even considered this until now
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
really :-/, ofc. you could look back to their parents... people dont have opportunities just because they dont have opportunities, especially in america were government funds education, and part of higher education along with the nations high demand for products and services, there is always something you can do unless you dont have the mental/physical capabilities to do so, it revolves in a circle......same can be said for opportunities sociallist states where goverment controls medicince and education..
I got what the artical was saying, but the premis was wrong... intelligence isnt knowledge, what you know, your skills, its your ability to learn. Learning books, math ect isnt all you need to be successful, if you can sell something to get yourself out of poverty, its because your not dumb, ::intelligent:: entrapeneur (sp) But if your stuck in a rut, its b ecause you dont have the aptitude to achieve, it isnt becasue your poor. it might make it tough, but the majority show that it isnt impossible, if your parents are consiquently you arent below the average to begin with.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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I got what the artical was saying, but the premis was wrong... intelligence isnt knowledge, what you know, your skills, its your ability to learn. Learning books, math ect isnt all you need to be successful, if you can sell something to get yourself out of poverty, its because your not dumb, ::intelligent:: entrapeneur (sp) But if your stuck in a rut, its b ecause you dont have the aptitude to achieve, it isnt becasue your poor. it might make it tough, but the majority show that it isnt impossible, if your parents are consiquently you arent below the average to begin with.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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intelligence isnt knowledge, what you know, your skills, its your ability to learn.
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I don't see how intelligence==ability to learn unless you're abstracting it over the course of your lifetime. As I've said before, there seems to be some evidence that babies learn at a much quicker rate than older adults, but we wouldn't generally say a baby was more intelligent than an older professor.
I'll generally echo SJG on this : The word intelligence as used in everyday conversation is not a useful scientific term, and things like "cognitive ability", "learning ability" or "knowledge" shouldn't be conflated with "intelligence".
edit : As for the rest of your post, I'm not quite sure what you're saying exactly. No-one is saying it's impossible for people in poverty to do well in later life. The odds are merely stacked against people born into poverty (for various reasons including health, education, social networks, etc).
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
The only way to change this is by giving the poor the rich to eat! Then they will get all those tasty minerals and proteins and karbo's and god knows what else!
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
People in poverty steal cars and have underage sex!
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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People in poverty steal cars and have underage sex!
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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I don't see how intelligence==ability to learn unless you're abstracting it over the course of your lifetime. As I've said before, there seems to be some evidence that babies learn at a much quicker rate than older adults, but we wouldn't generally say a baby was more intelligent than an older professor.
I'll generally echo SJG on this : The word intelligence as used in everyday conversation is not a useful scientific term, and things like "cognitive ability", "learning ability" or "knowledge" shouldn't be conflated with "intelligence".
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Learning involves the reinforcement of certain neural pathways with detriment to others (eg an electrical pulse travels down one other than another two more frequently when you do a specific task ... the more use the nerve gets the "stronger" it becomes ... eventually "weaker" nerves "disappear").
Unlike adults Babies/Children haven't "hard wired" their brains yet and as such can adapt to new environments/learn new skills more easily.
There are still plenty of nerves that can be "reinforced".
Intelligence is a stupid term.
"Mental agility" is probably more apt.
ie the higher the "processer speed" of your brain the better.
Errmmmm, hope i've made sense.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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Intelligence is a stupid term.
"Mental agility" is probably more apt.
ie the higher the "processer speed" of your brain the better.
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That does make sense, and I've heard that type of theory proposed before. And yeah, agility would seem to equal the "speed" of your brain (presuming we could measure such a thing). However, that's only one factor which would determine intelligence (or even success).
I mean, if I could choose between two employee's, one of whom was very quick witted (mentally agile, whatever) but who had absolutley no concentration span, then I'd probably choose someone who was a little more "average" all round. Obviously it depends what job you're talking about, but you can guess what I'm getting at.
We don't dream of trying to factor in various athletic abilities (endurance/stamina, speed, upper body strength, leg strength, etc, etc) into one number, so I'm mystified why we try to do the same in intelligence. Undoubtedly there are "mental marathon runners" vs "mental sprinters" or whatever. Which would be more useful would depend on the role.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
OK hows this ...
- Mental agility
- Memory capacity
- Recall ability
- Speed of learning
- Concentration span
All 5 combined to make up "intelligence" (unless you have any other suggestions)?!
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
Dante...
why bother arguing with sunday?
if he gets fewer reponses he might actually **** off.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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Dante...
why bother arguing with sunday?
if he gets fewer reponses he might actually **** off.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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All 5 combined to make up "intelligence" (unless you have any other suggestions)?!
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Well, you haven't anything "creative" there, but let's say I agree with your schema. How would you combine the 5? What's the weighting?
Is mental agility more important than recall? I'm sure to a lot of people it is. But others not so much. Similarly, physical strength isn't that important to a marathon runner, but would be a weight-lifter. Would a trivia buff prefer to have better memory recall but shorter concentration span?
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Dante...
why bother arguing with sunday?
if he gets fewer reponses he might actually **** off.
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I'm not arguing with Sunday. His original post doesn't make much sense to me tbh, and plus he's just trolling with his usual drivel. That doesn't stop others in this thread being serious and/or worth replying to. There are good threads that Sunday has started, usually when he's pissed off out of the thread.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
You wouldn't have to have weighting (or an overall score).
You could just do a score out of 100 for each one.
People could then look at the score and go "Wow that Dace is one intelligent mother ****er"*.
*obviously i'd have high scores in everything
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
fair point.
proposal for the deleting of sundays orginal post (and subsiquent posts) after 10 replies.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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You could just do a score out of 100 for each one.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
Everyone who thinks in a similar way to me, and who is strong in the mental areas in which I am also strong, is intelligent.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
While you might be right generally, it's pretty easy to respect a mode of thinking different to yours. I can respect artists or musicians despite being rubbish at those particular skills.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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Everyone who thinks in a similar way to me, and who is strong in the mental areas in which I am also strong, is intelligent.
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Thinking that doing First Year Uni courses for n+1 years is a good idea makes you intelligent?!
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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While you might be right generally, it's pretty easy to respect a mode of thinking different to yours. I can respect artists or musicians despite being rubbish at those particular skills.
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People generally dont use the word 'intelligent' for this though, theyd generally say something like 'creative' or suchlike. I'd expect that the only people who would normally call a musician 'intelligent' are other musicians.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
I think that's more of a social thing. Most mathematicians are respected as intelligent, despite maths not being most people's strong points.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
This is exactly one of those "chicken and eggs" thingies.
Are people stupid because they are poor? Or are people poor because they are stupid?
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
this means that
75% of those who live in poverty will be more intelligent than those who don't.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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This is exactly one of those "chicken and eggs" thingies.
Are people stupid because they are poor? Or are people poor because they are stupid?
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Not really.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
this means that
75% of those who live in poverty will be more intelligent than those who don't.
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No it doesn't, and that's not what the link says anyway.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
Yes it does and the link is irrelevant to the subject.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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Yes it does and the link is irrelevant to the subject.
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Gimmick or idiot?
YOU DECIDE!
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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Gimmick or idiot?
YOU DECIDE!
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
i decided that you are an idiot
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
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Or a silly ax.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
Wittiest thread on the internet!
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
The title and poster of the thread set the ball rolling for it to be the worst thread ever, and it didn't let me down.
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
[/quote]Originally Posted by Structural Integrity
This is exactly one of those "chicken and eggs" thingies.
Are people stupid because they are poor? Or are people poor because they are stupid?
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my point ;-) and
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25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
this means that
75% of those who live in poverty will be more intelligent than those who don't.
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not really
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because, we are only refering to the poor people who are dumber, not equal too.
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Yes it does and the link is irrelevant to the subject.
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Is the the link what the subject was about ???
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Re: 25% of those who live in poverty will be less intelligent than those who don't.
this thread makes me sad :(
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Apparently prices change in different countries :ninjaguydoingthis:
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