Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "Джеймс Флинн: Почему наш IQ уровень выше, чем у наших бабушек и дедушек?" video.

  1. Actually as a descendant of Russian peasants (rather close one, my greatgrandparents - 3 generations back - were peasants, could not read and write even), I can say they did not need to be logical in everything to survive, they needed just to learn how to work very hard from their parents, then work hard whole their lives and teach their kids to do the same. They did not have time to think too much about what is logical, what is not (beyond the need of growing enough in the summer to last for the next year, but that is rather narrow area of expertise)
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  2. Actually there is no single way of being "life smart". If my greatgrandparents did good as subsistence farming, that does not mean they would be good in modern post-industrial society. Probably they would be at the bottom, in fact, cause they could not read and write (simply never learned that), and that is essential skill in any part of modern life. Actually in the very ancient times probably readin and writing was considered something which only makes you "book smart" and was useless for majority of people, but nowadays it is necessary for being "life smart"
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  3. Don't use personal examples in generalised way. My own greatgrandparents were peasants and could not read and write, while I have Master's degree, and know English as a foreign language, learned to play piano (don't practice much though) and many different other things. Personal examples are different both from each other and from general tendency
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  4. well, many Muslims are just as he described. Not all, but many.
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