This is true at the global level, and especially in the 3rd world, but not in the developed societies most of us are living in.
The Flynn effect reversed sometime in the mid 80s.
The pattern is currently for less educated people and people in worse financial situations to have more children than those more well off.
That's significantly concerning given we have extensive evidence genes matter more than environment does in humans:
It is far more efficient in the long run for that trend to invert, and the average intelligence of the population plays a huge role in facing the challenges of the future successfully.
Pretending this is not a significant and increasingly dire problem does nothing but avoid confrontation with hard truths.
GPS is a passive system.
The satellites in orbit emit a constant location and identifier signal perceivable from the ground.
A GPS positioning device looks for and reads those signals and then performs a triangulation calculation.
Spoofing these signals means outputting identical but incorrect ones either from your own constellation of satellites or from ground-based arrays/emitters.
Typically military hardware expects a certain level of spoofing and has it's own built-in countermeasures/security checks so effective jamming/spoofing means successfully navigating these countermeasures either through brute force or accurate intelligence.
1. Paternity. Sometimes it's tragic when an otherwise good father learns he's not the father. The truth was very inconvenient to the established narrative.
2. Heritability of 'problem' genes in patients/families who request sequencing.
You can't really tell a wealthy family that they're both MAOA2/4R carriers and explain what that means without ruffling a ton of feathers.
Great discussion.
Worrying implications for western society though.
If Caplan is right, and the data says he is, the declining birth rate among the wests richest and smartest is a death knell.
Also, it would suggest we radically re-evaluate the usefulness of almost all redistribution programs.
If outcomes are almost entirely genetic, we get far more efficient results by getting the rich/smart to have more kids than by trying to uplift the downtrodden.
DNA and whole-life outcomes have been an extremely contentious conversation, but one that's worth having, and any actor with more data is going to be able to make more fruitful insights.
A person (or, let's be honest here, nation state) with a large collection of DNA sequences tied to real-life persons has two major advantages:
1. They can draw statistical correlations between what individual genes and gene clusters are associated with economic performance and which are not.
2. They can identify genetic susceptibility/vulnerability. More benignly to things like chronic addiction, gambling, alcohol, nutrient deficiency, susceptibility to environmental effects etc. In a more conspiratorial direction it can form targeting data for weaponized/tailored bioweapons once those make their way onto the public stage.
The 'ringing' sound people hear isn't actually a sound. It is how the brain processes signals produced by damaged Stereocilia.
If the 'ringing' is constant it means the cilia are permanently damaged. While it would, in theory, be possible to use surgery on the ear and some sort of lazer to completely remove all damaged cilia to avoid them outputting a damaged signal, this procedure would be incredibly invasive and risky. I don't believe it's ever been done and i would find it hard to believe any Otolaryngologist willing to try.
You'd have to ask the bill's authors to know for sure.
If I had to bet though it was a security thing. They want caste named explicitly because a good deal of Indian immigrants are dealing with it despite it supposedly being illegal.
It's because they're only trying to prove a single thing:
At scale, perpetually buying into a stock across a period beats mass buying into a stock at any one point in a period where future results are unknown.
They likely shot it down because 'caste' carries a very different meaning in American parlance. It mostly relates to wealth and they absolutely DO want to discriminate on that basis.
Somewhat.
It's a novelty factor response.
If you're not used to hearing background noise then every little thing sort of 'pops'. Individual key clicks sound more distinct, you pay more attention to the sound of footsteps etc.
It's just your brain being unaccustomed to the sounds and reintroducing them.
The Flynn effect reversed sometime in the mid 80s. The pattern is currently for less educated people and people in worse financial situations to have more children than those more well off.
That's significantly concerning given we have extensive evidence genes matter more than environment does in humans:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/
It is far more efficient in the long run for that trend to invert, and the average intelligence of the population plays a huge role in facing the challenges of the future successfully.
Pretending this is not a significant and increasingly dire problem does nothing but avoid confrontation with hard truths.