James Watson - The complexity of the modern world and IQ (91/99)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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Born in 1928, American molecular biologist James Watson is best known for jointly discovering the structure of DNA, for which he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His long career has also seen him launch the Human Genome Project. [Listeners: Martin Raff and Walter Gratzer]
TRANSCRIPT: I think I was, you know, talking about whether the increasingly complex world in which everyone lives is making demands on - of people with lower intelligence that they can't easily handle. That is, we're - as we go more and more into a computer age, certainly if you're not - can't handle a computer, increasingly, you know, you can't be a shop assistant, you can't be - we will sort of declare that or find that we have a higher percentage of people that we now call unemployable or effectively become unemployable because they're not very functional. And this percentage may be higher than it was 100 years ago because life, you can't live by your physical strength. You can't, you know, you probably can't be a traffic warden unless you can use a cell phone. So - and right now the response to the increasing complexity of our lives is to say that we can solve this by keeping our children longer in school and making them learn more and, you know, raising the age of the school leavers and - hope it works, but I don't think we should in any way count on it, because IQ seems to be, as far as we can know, just stable through your life until modified by cognitive decline. That is, you don't get great change, you see. I was just in Edinburgh to meet Ian Deary who's in charge of the Scottish data on studying IQs over a life. In 1947, they did the IQs of everyone in Scotland and repeated it 20 years later, worried about cognitive decline, that people with lower IQs had more children and you might find a dysgenic component, but they found no change. So that was - but you know, logically, you'll say, maybe it's true. But you know, there wasn't big enough - whether the fact that the IQ stayed the same because people are - IQ clearly has to be affected by education on a short term. There's an effect called the Flynn Effect which seems to be real, that IQs have increased over time, but not in the basic core things that they say contributes to genes, things that correlate between different tasks, general intelligence. That has not increased much, but sort of - we can - we've been more stimulated early in childhood, we can handle more, which would mean that, you know, we can do things at an earlier age than we could before. But no one believes that the people today are really any brighter than they were 20 years ago. If you take it and look at it, it would just mean that the average person 20 years ago was almost mentally retarded. It wasn't true. So more, lots more remains to be seen, but I've been dominated by just observing the cognitive limitations of my son.
He is a scientist and he is doing his job .
Why silencing him .
Silencing is a practice of fascism .
Communism, the idea that everyone is equal in nature or can be but they're not
Right is not always correct due to the fact that they can false flag a mostly peaceful on you at any time.
It's not fascism it's religious fanatism (which actually ideologies of 20th century were too) dragging our civilization back to Middle Ages
one of the most outstanding scientists ever
He was cancelled for stating what we all know ........ The obvious
Yes. We can’t say out loud. The Belle Curve
He’s trying to say, have lower standards for a certain race and all your life questions are answered.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
And he's right.
while Watson was intelligent, his ideas in the hands of dumb ppl such as yourself are dangerous.. a low IQ individual can misuse anything
😂😂😂 he lost his mind since 2007. Then he spewed unfounded hate and racism. Then all you racist morons pop your little heads up to reveal the kind of racist filth you are. Lol black guy mustve fd his wife. There is NO evidence to back up these claims. So all you kkk idiots take your head out of your a*** and pay attention. No evidence… just a resentful hateful pathetic old man who ruined his scientific legacy with un-scientific claims
He’s right!
He is a hero.
All our university are under hand of Jewish international.
Thank you.
James Watson, my respect.
Good health Mr. James Watson, you are one of the greatest men in the life sciences
Facts don't care about feelings.
PS- I'm a black guy.
Suuuuuure
we accept that homo sapiens could dominated our cousins lıke homo erectus, neanderthalens but when ıts comes down to racial differences we cant accept it.ı can guess ıtd be really hard for a black guy to accept( congrats to you) but we have to mainstream it and start to change our policies according to that.
@@intello8953you know its not for every people is the majority of. eventuallly the smartest gonna look around and realise they are surounded by moroms.
@@suaypordulu6056 so what are the policies don’t be scared now
@@flowrepins6663 what do you mean “majority of”?
Watson seems to lack understanding of society and it's history, especially in Britain. This problem of the lower classes versus the few has always been around - from slavery to the Chartist movement, to the Luddites in Britain, to our present day talk of 'the one percent'. Writers from Percy Shelley to Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell have written about it with feeling and understanding. Society exists for people, not people for a changed hi-tech society, and life is surely about fulfilment through society and friends and achievment as well as about getting clever and making ever more complex things ! As I learn more and more of Watson (whom I have always had great admiration for) I get the impression that he does not know of these other aspects of life and doesn't have anything to say on them. His comments on our Thatcher era seem naive. Thatcher disrupted a whole way of life that had validity for miners, shipbuilders, fishermen and so on. Without such communities a society of just Nobel prize winners would die! His son, whom he says suffers schizophrenia (yet he says is never psychotic) seems to me to be more a case of autism, and perhaps that is present in the father too as high-functioning autism or Aspergers (the labels keep changing and didn't even exist when his son was young). Silicon valley now has an epidemic of autism. Silicon valley and our modern world of electronics would not exist without Bill Shockley, another 'discredited' Nobel prize winner described as rude and difficult, yet who co-invented the transistor. Clever parents drawn to Silicon valley are having malfunctioning children. Clever parents who lack intersubjectivity in a certain way, or empathy, or just patience with children, may contribute to genetically disposed children failing to get programmed normally either early or in puberty (when schizophrenia strikes). This connects with synaptic pruning, which is a vital part of 'booting up' our brains (isn't Watson also into teh Brain in a big way?). I'm with Prof Bentall on the false labelling - see 'Doctoring the Mind' and ''Madness Explained'. I also found much to admire in David Smail's 'Taking Care' where he demolishes accepted ideas of what people think they want - based on sixty years or so of listening to them as a psychotherapist.
You are taking the example of western countries, where average IQ is around 100.
In third world countries people with lower IQs are incapable of doing even simple jobs like fishing and farming.
@ZnSn3 I don't know how strong the correlation is between IQ and literacy rates. But it is true that some Eugenics/anti-dysgenics happened in western Europe between the medieval age and the industrial revolution. Ed Dutton talks about this in his book, at our wit's end. I think Peter Frost has also done similar research where he found that in England richer 50% of the population were having more children than the poorer ones.
@@ZERO-mt1lv Civilization and people are two different things, if you do not know already.
@@rohankale1000 nope. Dumb people out produce smart ones by a ratio of five to one incidentally, the autism is off the charts in the South Bay because of contamination of the groundwater by the manufacturing sector and by the overuse of childhood vaccinations which are a toxic soup of heavy metals and carcinogenic chemicals and cancerous cell lines. The truth is, in a first world country with refrigeration soap and running water and access to toilets and adequate nutrition no one needs vaccination.
No you seem to be confused that despite that some races are dumber
god bless you
You absolutely can live by your physical strength. there will always be the need for construction and skilled labor. We are very far from robots that can install custom cabinets, plumbing, electrical wiring, you name it. You just have to have a good work ethic.
There might always be some need for it. Physical strength is something that almost everyone is born with. Many of those people have the ability and willingness to develop a good work ethic as well. So there's will be a roughly steady supply of physical labor, on a per capita basis, for the foreseeable future. However as you automate everything, the demand for human physical labor will decrease. According to microeconomics, if supply remains steady while demand drops, it causes the price to drop. As the price of labor drops, it will become increasingly more difficult for people to make a living off of physical labor. Eventually only the truly desperate will be used for simple physical labor. For some complex labor jobs like field engineers perform, there will be a demand for a longer period of time. But I cannot imagine that in 100yrs there will be any real market for custom cabinets. As machines improve, they will be able to produce superior products for things like this. Unless we go into nuclear winter, then physical labor will be SUPER valuable.
There is a large percentage of the population even the military cannot find a job for. At a certain point you’re just a drain on society and should probably be removed from it.
@@finewinedine you'll always need manual labor for building. Roofing, tiling ,plumbing. AI can do everything that Watson and crick did but it cant construct a roof beam or run electric cable conduits for a new house.
@@desalines We don't really know where it will all go, but my guess would be in 100 years there will not be plumbers or roofers. AI will likely eventually be able to build robots that can then do manual labor. Over time, those robots will be superior to humans at manual labor.
totally agree, many labor taxing jobs actually make much more than even mid level office job.
Ty
Poor Laquisha😔
In Kenya the IQ of children rose by 26.3 points from 1984 to 1998.
Did they genetically change so fast? Probably not.
Instead in the course of half a generation, nutrition, health and parental literacy had improved. The guy evolved into a egomaniac... Too bad that a Nobel price winner forgot what it actually means to be a scientist. And too bad that there are so many willing to just believe without actually researching themselves what these papers are actually saying...
So a degenerate like you who is not aware that the recent "increase" in IQ is a global phenomenon that is well studied... it is even named.. its called the Flynn effect.. is going to tell us about "real science"..
Because a Nobel Peace prize winning scientist is not a good scientist because he hurt someone's feelings...
26 points lol bullshiit
What are you suggesting? That with proper nutrition, health and parental literacy, we can all become computer scientists, nuclear physicists and concert pianists? Really? If you believe that, then I bet you also believe in Santa Claus and flying carpets.
It changed because attending to basic needs maximised their phenotypical potential. That gain hasn't been replicated ad infinitum because there are limits.
26 points 😂😂😂😂
HAHAHAHAA
They're under 70 mate.
So we're going to listen to Watson one of the leftovers from Nazi Academic school of thought on anything regarding cognitive ability???
he is literally the guy who discovered dna and won nobel prize so... no ..we are better off listening to a smart youtuber such as yourself. teach us about animal nitrogenous bases
@@flowrepins6663 Both he and Crick stole and built on Rosalind Franklind's discovery from her x-ray crystallography research of the double helix and refused to give her credit due to sexism in science in that era. They both are eugenicists and have very low esteem for women. She should've at least shared the Prize since they did little research of their own but ran trials and errors on other scientists models.
@@desalines studies on adopted chilrdren show env factors don't make huge differences to iq
@@desalinescomplete BS. Facts hurt your feelings.
He's not wrong. Someone sounds like a thoughtnazi.