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Of course we’re outraged. Our minds are becoming moral

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/of-course-were-outraged-our-minds-are-becoming-moral/article11866603/

…”What has changed? As it happens, this rising moral consciousness has coincided with another shift: Across the world, average IQs have been rising, with astonishing rapidity, throughout the past century. We are scoring much higher on intelligence tests than our grandparents. (In 1900, the average North American had an IQ of 72 compared to today’s 100.)
That constant rise in IQ is known as the Flynn Effect, after the politics professor James R. Flynn, who made the world aware of it in the early 1980s. And Mr. Flynn now believes that increasing IQ scores are not so much measures of “smartness” as they are indicators of a distinctly moral kind of intelligence.

IQ, as most people are now aware, is not a measure of the processing power of the brain (that remains largely unchanged); rather, it tracks our ability to think about abstract problems in a socially determined, real-world context.

This is why minorities and developing countries have appeared to have lower intelligence. Those in communication-deprived settings – the rural, the marginal, the poor, the excluded – will have lower IQ scores. And it is why the fastest rises in IQ scores are among these groups (Turkey, with family sizes and urbanization approaching Western levels, saw a 30-point IQ gain). IQ is, above all, a measure of modernity.”…

I should just point out what I think is the obvious from an outsider’s point of view. Since metrics were used to measure IQ’s back in the 1900’s of the general population compared to today, what we would see is a slow but noticeable increase in the IQ ranges using a relational base measurement of ‘actual reality’ to a so called ‘artificial conceptual’ bar set by the very people who thought they were the smartest people on the planet to measure these so called statistics.

These so called statistical results mean nothing when their values are so vague as to suggest that today’s numbers reflect our higher intelligence quotient when in fact they are just numbers pumped out to make professionals look good.

We are no more moral than before. The only difference between now and any point in time in the past is that as humans we are exposed to so much experiential, visual and auditory experiences we cannot refrain ourselves from asking where our places in the scheme of things fit into mis-shapen slots of the Dance of Life & NRGY. We have always had and always will have the ability to question and be entitled to answers regarding morality and ethical conduct. The more appropriate question and critical thinking issue is who poses the first questions to get the ball rolling and in what direction. That has an enormous impact on what the overall picture will look like right off the bat. WHY – because it takes first priority if a well crafted diplomat of high caliber knows exactly how to manipulate NRGY in such a way as to have it take on the form and feel of a chess game in full ‘HEAT’ .

We are smarter that cannot be denied. However are we wiser – that is the true question when it comes to moral issues.