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7 Reddit comments about The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One:

u/Jakunai · 41 pointsr/childfree

There is an interesting and controversial book, called "The Intelligence Paradox", where the author provides some evidence that for every 15 IQ points a woman possesses, her maternal urge drops by 25 percent.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Intelligence-Paradox-Intelligent-Choice/dp/0470586958

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u/mgbkurtz · 14 pointsr/Accounting

Take a break from accounting and finance books. I have a few recommendations from my recent reading:

The Intelligence Paradox

The Evolution of Everything

Delusions of Power

Equal is Unfair

The Feminine Mystique

How an Economy Grows - And Why It Crashes

Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy

Buddha's Brain

The Red Queen

Obviously there's a political bend in some of those choices, but I can suggest others (it's always important to challenge your beliefs).

I love to read, can provide some other recommendations, but those were just some recent books I just pulled off my Nook. There's some fiction as well.

u/cruachanmor · 9 pointsr/JordanPeterson

OK, it's only been happening now a couple of generations, but I'm increasingly thinking it's worth seriously addressing the proposition that intelligence in women is selected against.

Not saying this is a good thing - it's plainly not - but it is true that the more intelligent a woman is then the less children she has.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2010/06/25/childlessness-up-among-all-women-down-among-women-with-advanced-degrees/

https://www.amazon.com/The-Intelligence-Paradox-Intelligent-Choice/dp/0470586958

Where that goes is speculation, but as there is a selective pressure we would expect some outcome - and these things can happen over a surprisingly few generations (as the siberian foxes demonstrate)

u/icefire54 · 2 pointsr/DebateAltRight

Homosexuals are actually more intelligent than heterosexuals.

https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Paradox-Intelligent-Choice-Always/dp/0470586958

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/PurplePillDebate

> Then either don't bother with TRP (until you need it, that is),

Not bother about TRP offending half of humanking? Look, TRP may be just self-help or strategy, but the fallout of offense that it hands out from that is enourmous, and this is the issue with it, not the self help aspect.

>Ah yes. The liberal creationism. Evolution is real, but it uniquely influences human beings. Despite the difference in origin, all human races developed in same way, with equal mental potential that only environment shaped. Race is thus a minor social construct that shows nothing about someone. Gender is entirely the same, and despite some minor physical differences, gender roles are completely cultural, and there is no underlying method of behaviour that can be considered culturally universal, and thus the general behaviour of all women. Despite you know, there being a neurological difference, difference in hormones, genotypic difference, phenotypic difference - YOU CANNOT GENERALIZE ALL WOMEN BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL UNIQUE.

I actually don't think I am a liberal - I just dislike the individualistic, selfish kinds of conservatism. Community oriented conservatism (Robert Nisbet for example) is OK.

Differences exist but they are rather small, because in a tough environment flexibility, versatility (taking on any other roles), and so on are important.

Humans are not a special animal, gender differences are fairly small in e.g. lions or tigers. Both hunts, both are fucking dangerous, both you don't want to fight. Males are bit a tougher and larger because they fight each other, too, but the gender difference between a male and female lion is much smaller than between a lion and a wolf.

The point is, matters a whole lot more what species and animal is, than what gender.

Besides, intelligence tends to suppress instincts. Intelligence is a general problem solving tool that tends to suppress instincts - even common sense. http://www.amazon.com/The-Intelligence-Paradox-Intelligent-Choice/dp/0470586958

This matters. Even differently evolved instincts matter less in an intelligent species.

Blue-pillers generally find that RP is bullshit for them because they are highly intelligent, means, low instinct level. RP basically offends intelligent people.

If highly hormonal and low IQ people (so dumber youngsters) are herded together (like, a co-educated prison would be), it indeed tends to look a bit like RP.

u/Ravenhaft · 1 pointr/JordanPeterson

IQ is actually negatively correlated with reproductive success, which on a longer timescale is all that really matters.

The Intelligence Paradox is an interesting book that goes into this.
https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Paradox-Intelligent-Choice-Always/dp/0470586958