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Intelligence Prefers Cold - Zinjanthropos - Feb 24, 2024 The debate goes on. Are people in colder climates smarter than those of warmer? Global warming may see Earthling smarts nosedive. I suffered, the schools I attended lacked air conditioning. They tried to teach me in what was siesta time in other parts of the world. https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/outreach/back-to-school/study-finds-people-become-less-intelligent-during-a-heat-wave/527-b3d6db75-cff8-4d18-a412-0f005552bbd3 RE: Intelligence Prefers Cold - C C - Feb 26, 2024 I don't see how those rawly living in either extreme heat or freezing cold could care about or devote much time to abstract thought, except when some practical offshoot of it aided survival. Kind of moot in this day and age, anyway, what with modern air conditioning and heating (cabs of work vehicles & equipment as much as homes and offices). Poor and uneducated people who might lack or can't afford such conveniences aren't expected (by the establishments) to conceive and introduce novel, major developments, anyway. Their value to the regional Lord Protectors is as victims of an oppressive social structure -- serving as their political mascots and justifications for _X_ opportunistic agendas and heavy taxation. When destitute, ailing, and starving in NYC, Lovecraft never accomplished much in the heat of summer and the cold of winter. Oddly enough, the effects of being in poverty seemed to generate social injustice attitudes rather than commiseration with his fellow victims. Marriage, Failure, and Exile: H.P. Lovecraft in New York: He spent all of his adult life living and writing in a single Providence neighborhood with one notable exception — his two years in New York City between 1924 and 1926. RE: Intelligence Prefers Cold - Yazata - Feb 27, 2024 I live in warm California and.... uh, what were we talking about? I don't get it... RE: Intelligence Prefers Cold - Zinjanthropos - Feb 27, 2024 (Feb 27, 2024 04:37 AM)Yazata Wrote: I live in warm California and.... uh, what were we talking about? Along the northern coast of Lake Erie is a spit of land that extends southward called Point Pelee. It’s about a 4 hr drive from where I am but when you walk out on it you end up at the southernmost tip of mainland Canada. There’s an island (Pelee Island) that is even more southerly. Both are situated farther south than California’s northern border. Difference is that Pelee experiences a much colder climate. Now we could at least compare the intelligence levels of the two areas in the interest of science, if only to eliminate latitude from the equation. RE: Intelligence Prefers Cold - confused2 - Feb 27, 2024 We need some way to compare the intelligence of one lot of people who choose to live in a place that's nice and warm and another lot of people who choose to live where it's cold as hell and really difficult to survive. Can't say anything obvious springs to mind. RE: Intelligence Prefers Cold - Zinjanthropos - Feb 27, 2024 (Feb 27, 2024 12:12 PM)confused2 Wrote: We need some way to compare the intelligence of one lot of people who choose to live in a place that's nice and warm and another lot of people who choose to live where it's cold as hell and really difficult to survive. Can't say anything obvious springs to mind. Like scientists. |