The DNA lottery is played every time two people decide to mate. They are both selecting genetic traits of the other including looks, intelligence, personality and others.
Find a way to develop a 'Wisdom/Common Sense' IQ. I see rote intelligence measures as showing abilities to engage complex thinking, mostly math oriented, BUT as presenting a great lack in reflecting common sense and life wisdom. There _are_ some children who display awareness beyond their years...
I believe that we are all intelligent in our own special way as determined by nature/nurture, chance/circumstance, with the potential to excel at nearly anything depending on the path we choose, that presents itself, allowing abilities to emerge to meet our needs/interests.
i know what you mean, i always convince myself that i am as smart as Albert Einstein but that I just need 3000 years to live to reach that level , so how great that some can achieve before they die
The normal thing to do in paraplegic sport is categorise each event according to disability there by every winner gets gold all golds are equal, so why not do the same in work, a window cleaner working 40 hours and a brain surgeon working 40 hours get the same reward equal pay. Ask your self how many brain surgeons would change profession from brain surgery to cleaning windows. Working out doors in winter climbing aluminium ladders putting their hands in buckets of cold water.
@@shamtradtam3769 moreover, if a window cleaner asks for the same money as a brain surgeon most people will clean their own windows, because that doesn't require a... well, a brain surgeon. By the way, some of my best friends are window cleaners.
Not quite there are no differences, just variations of the same thing. Blood types are a good example! It's still blood, it's still red, it's still pumped around the body by the heart. A difference would be if you had wings and could fly and the rest of us didn't! Genetic difference!
@@JohnM-sw4sc right....we have more similarities than differences....in any normally distributed curve 95% data fall within the expected range....and statistics is just another lie....
@@JohnM-sw4sc The very premise that some one ordinary can capture and nature some one extra-ordinary is intrinsically flawed. And like I said statistics is a lie you can increase or decrease the window of data range to exclude everybody except yourself. And there lies the conspiracy of the so called meritocracy....and again intellectuals and intelligent are all together different words. We've seen how the likes of Enstein, Steve Jobs and more recently Bill Gates treated their own spouses so inhumanly. It's a myth that meritocracy serves the greater humanity. It's quite reverse - it's too self centric and outright corrupt and heinous!
@@JohnM-sw4sc that's the problem with you don't understand what you're uttering. Peace....communism is the answer we are all equal....and each one of us should serve each other ....that's it....meritocracy is fake...we're are equal human beings....those three are not anecdotal but only examples of the greater malaise entrenched in the system of so called meritocracy.....communism is the word each one for us all....each one all of ours!
Someone needs to tell Kathryn she is not a scientist. She is a psychologist and genetics is probably a subject she can barely comprehend. I don’t need her to interpret biochemistry and genetics. The results are clear and her activism is very annoying and naive. She almost wants to tell us we need to treat people differently and not equally. Why? Because some things are inherited and can’t be drastically changed by throwing money and no standards at them.
What I love most about this type of interview is reading the comments. Many are spot on!!! Don’t mess with our genetics or else we will be living in a dystopian communist nightmare!!
Helen Lewis still has a career? LOL I was looking up comedy videos.... and thought to myself, I should look up Helen Lewis, I'm sure I'll get a good laugh. And welp it worked.
The simple answer is no. We've learned ways to manipulate our biology but nature can only be twisted so much and so quickly by the machinations of humans. We're more at the mercy of our biology than most ideologues will admit, their reasons being their own.
Yes thoughts control some of the biology (for example thoughts control the release of stress hormones which effect everything in your body) Meditation can trigger changes in our cells. Choices control other big parts of biology (what time you go to sleep every night do you get sun exposure when you wake up and red sun exposure before you go to sleep. Also the chemicals you put into your body like food) Some biology cannot be changed. DNA will not change however epigenetics (which decides which part of your genes are actually turned on) does change with thoughts. Epigenetics is also passed down to your offspring so it is hereditary. So outlook and especially actions matter. In a way thoughts have a huge impact on your life.
I like her analysis it make real sense. But definitely science has its limitations. Also the political structure we live in the opportunities are limited.
@Sancho Panza, Really? I feel sorry for you and your apparent distorted world view. To reply further would just be a waste of your, and my, time. May the blessings be. PS. You might want to put some salve on your knuckles since they must be dragging on the ground constantly. Lol.
