Some people want you to believe . . .
Some people want you to believe . . . intelligence seems to decline slowly with . . . age
IQ can change to some degree over the course of childhood. In one longitudinal study, the mean IQ scores of tests at ages 17 and 18 were correlated at r=0.86 with the mean scores of tests at ages five, six, and seven and at r=0.96 [further explanation needed] with the mean scores of tests at ages 11, 12, and 13.
For decades, practitioners' handbooks and textbooks on IQ testing have reported IQ declines with age after the beginning of adulthood. However, later researchers pointed out this phenomenon is related to the Flynn effect and is in part a cohort effect rather than a true aging effect. A variety of studies of IQ and aging have been conducted since the norming of the first Wechsler Intelligence Scale drew attention to IQ differences in different age groups of adults. The current consensus is that fluid intelligence generally declines with age after early adulthood, while crystallized intelligence remains intact. Both cohort effects (the birth year of the test-takers) and practice effects (test-takers taking the same form of IQ test more than once) must be controlled to gain accurate data.[inconsistent] It is unclear whether any lifestyle intervention can preserve fluid intelligence into older ages. The exact peak age of fluid intelligence or crystallized intelligence remains elusive. Cross-sectional studies usually show that especially fluid intelligence peaks at a relatively young age (often in the early adulthood) while longitudinal data mostly show that intelligence is stable until mid-adulthood or later. Subsequently, intelligence seems to decline slowly.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#High_IQ_societiesConversely, throughout human history, and without regard to age, men and women have consistently demonstrated intellectual acuity representing phenomenal achievements in creativity and productivity. For example:
Clint Eastwood, 92
Born, May 31, 1930Maggie Smith, 87
Born, December 28, 1934Harry Belafonte, 95
Born, March 1, 1927Jane Fonda, 84
Born, December 21, 1937Morgan Freeman, 85
Born, June 1, 1937
An active American actor, Academy Award winning film director, producer and composer. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
An active English actress. With an extensive career on screen and stage beginning in the mid-1950s, Smith has appeared in more than 60 films and 70 plays. She is one of the few artists to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, having received highest achievement for film, television and theatre, winning two Academy Awards, a Tony Award and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
An active American singer, songwriter, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Jamaican-American pop star, he popularized the Trinbagonian Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.Died, April 25, 2023 (aged 96)
An active American actress, activist, and former fashion model. Recognized as a film icon, Fonda is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, the Honorary Palme d'Or, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award.
An active American actor, director, and narrator. He is known for his distinctive deep voice and various roles in a wide variety of film genres. Throughout his career spanning over five decades, he has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
An active Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer. Noted for her work across different areas of the entertainment industry, she has appeared in numerous film, television, and theater projects throughout her extensive career spanning over seven decades. She is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Among her numerous accolades, Moreno is one of a few performers to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT). She is also one of 24 people who have achieved what is called the Triple Crown of Acting, with individual competitive Academy, Emmy and Tony awards for acting. In 2004, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor bestowed upon her by George W. Bush. In 2009, President Barack Obama presented her with the National Medal of Arts. In 2013, she received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. In 2015, she was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor for her contribution to American culture through performing arts. She was awarded the Peabody Award in 2019.
Rita Moreno, 90
Born, December 11, 1931An active American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts. According to Guinness Music writer and charts historian Paul Gambaccini, Mathis has sold over 400 million records worldwide to date, making him the third-biggest selling artist of the 20th century after Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three recordings. The week before his appearance at the 1958 Academy Awards, Johnny's Greatest Hits was released. The album spent an unprecedented 490 consecutive weeks through 1967 (nearly nine and one-half years) on the Billboard top 200 album charts, including three weeks at number one. It held the record for the most weeks on the top Billboard 200 albums in the US for 15 years, until Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (March 1973) reached 491 weeks in October 1983.
Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen of Pop", Madonna has been widely recognized for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting and visual presentation. She has pushed the boundaries of artistic expression in mainstream music while maintaining control over every aspect of her career. Her works, which incorporate social, political, sexual, and religious themes, have generated both controversy and critical acclaim. A prominent cultural figure spanning both the 20th and 21st centuries, Madonna remains one of the most "well-documented figures of the modern age", with a broad array of scholarly reviews, literature, and art works about her, as well as an academic mini subdiscipline devoted to her called Madonna studies.
Dolly Parton, 78
Born, January 19, 1946
Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She is known for her decades-long career in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I'm Dolly, which led to success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), before her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s. Some of Parton's albums in the 1990s did not sell as well, but she achieved commercial success again in the new millennium and has released albums on various independent labels since 2000, including her own label, Dolly Records. With a career spanning over fifty years, Parton has been described as a "country music legend" and has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling artists of all time.
Above, Dolly Parton performing at 77. To watch video click here."You see, you learn something when you listen to old people. They ain’t fools, see. You don’t get to be old by being no fool, see. A lot of young wise men are deader than a motherf**ker, ain’t they?" (Mudbone, Intro) - Richard Pryor
The intelligence, outstanding phyical performance, and creativity don't stop after turning 50 . . .
Fred Astaire was born on May 10, 1899, and as a dancer, here's what he was doing after he turned 50 in 1949:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949) {with Ginger Rogers}
Three Little Words (1950) {with Red Skelton}
Let's Dance (1950) {with Betty Hutton}
Royal Wedding (1951) {with Jane Powell}
The Belle of New York (1952) {with Vera-Ellen}
The Band Wagon (1953) {with Cyd Charisse}
Daddy Long Legs (1955) {with Leslie Caron}
Funny Face (1957) {with Audrey Hepburn}
Silk Stockings (with 1957) {with Cyd Charisse}
By the way, Astaire sang and danced in all of the above films, and FYI, as a singer, Astaire was ranked the 14th most successful recording artist during the 1930s!
Fred Astaire (at 54) and Cyd Charisse in "The Band Wagon (1953)"e Band Wagon (1953)"
Shirley Bassey was born on January 8, 1937, and here's what she was doing after she turned 50 in 1987:
1993: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
1998: Longest run by a solo artist (ten shows) – Royal Festival Hall, London
1999: Madam Tussaud's waxwork unveiled in London (second model in Las Vegas)
2004: Ranked No. 8 on the list of "100 Great Black Britons"
2005: Avenue of Stars – plaque unveiled in London
2018: She unveiled a carriage on the Snowdon Mountain Railway, named in her honour
2019: Freedom of the City of Cardiff
2019: Square of Fame – plaque of Bassey's handprints unveiled at the SSE Arena, Wembley Park, London
2020: Official UK Chart Record – First female artist to claim a top 40 album in seven consecutive decades
2023: Order of Saint Charles (Monaco)
Plus . . .
1991: Walk of Fame, Star Boulevard – plaque unveiled in Rotterdam
1995: Showbusiness Personality of the Year – Variety Club of Great Britain
2003: Knight in France's Legion of Honour
2003: Outstanding Contribution to Music – National Music Awards, UK
2003: Lifetime Achievement Award (inaugural award) – Western Mail Welsh Woman of the Year Awards
2004: Artist for Peace Award – UNESCO
2004: Welsh Legend Award, presented at the opening of the Cardiff Millennium Centre
2013: Dorian Award, TV Musical Performance of the Year – Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association
2014: Lifetime Achievement Award – World Music Awards
2017: Hall of Fame Award, Jersey Style Awards
2017: Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Award
2023: Commemorative coins released by The Royal Mint (UK)
2023: Commemorative postage stamps released by The Royal Mail (UK)
2023: Order of Saint Charles (Monaco)
Shirley Bassey (at 72) sings, "Goldfinger"
- Of course, other notable female singers and dancers include . . .
Cher, who's 78, born May 20, 1946 and here's what she's been doing after she turned 50 in 1996:
Headlining concerts
Do You Believe? (1999–2000)
Living Proof: The Farewell Tour (2002–2005)
Dressed to Kill Tour (2014)
Here We Go Again Tour (2018–2020)
Concert residencies
- Cher (2008–2011)
- Classic Cher (2017–2020)
Headlining television shows and specials
Sonny & Me: Cher Remembers (1998)
Cher: Live in Concert – From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (1999)
Cher – The Farewell Tour (2003)
Dear Mom, Love Cher (2013)
Cher (at 71) sings, "Believe," and "If I Could Turn Back Time"
(Live on Billboard Music Awards)
Madonna, born August 16, 1958 (age 65) and here's what she's been doing after she turned 50 in 2008:
Headlining concerts
Sticky & Sweet Tour (2008–2009)
The MDNA Tour (2012)
Rebel Heart Tour (2015–2016)
Madame X Tour (2019–2020)
The Celebration Tour (2023–2024)
Discography
Hard Candy (2008)
MDNA (2012)
Rebel Heart (2015)
Madame X (2019)
Madonna (at 65) sings "Human Nature" and "Crazy for You"
15th October 2023
Frankly, it would be "tacky" to compare the extremely robust and highly active careers of Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joe Williams, Dick Van Dyke, Louis Armstrong, Helen Mirren, Sammy Davis, Jr., Sylvester Stallone, Doris Day, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Reba McEntire, Gladys Knight, Willie Nelson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Freddy Cole, George Strait, Patti LaBelle, and literally thousands of other singers, dancers, actors, actresses who produced great artistic work after turning 50 years of age.The "younger generation" of so-called "super stars" will benefit greatly from their extremely talented predecessors mentioned above, all who consistently demonstrated discipline and commitment to "maintain their creative and physical prowess."
Some people want you to believe . . . genetic differences in intelligence exists along racial lines
While the concept of "race" is a social construct, discussions of a purported relationship between race and intelligence, as well as claims of genetic differences in intelligence along racial lines, have appeared in both popular science and academic research since the modern concept of race was first introduced. Despite the tremendous amount of research done on the topic, no scientific evidence has emerged that the average IQ scores of different population groups can be attributed to genetic differences between those groups. Growing evidence indicates that environmental factors, not genetic ones, explain the racial IQ gap.
A 1996 task force investigation on intelligence sponsored by the American Psychological Association concluded that there were significant variations in IQ across races. However, a systematic analysis by William Dickens and James Flynn (2006) showed the gap between black and white Americans to have closed dramatically during the period between 1972 and 2002, suggesting that, in their words, the "constancy of the Black-White IQ gap is a myth."
The problem of determining the causes underlying racial variation has been discussed at length as a classic question of "nature versus nurture", for instance by Alan S. Kaufman and Nathan Brody. Researchers such as statistician Bernie Devlin have argued that there are insufficient data to conclude that the black-white gap is due to genetic influences. Dickens and Flynn argued more positively that their results refute the possibility of a genetic origin, concluding that "the environment has been responsible" for observed differences. A review article published in 2012 by leading scholars on human intelligence reached a similar conclusion, after reviewing the prior research literature, that group differences in IQ are best understood as environmental in origin. More recently, geneticist and neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell has argued, on the basis of basic principles of population genetics, that "systematic genetic differences in intelligence between large, ancient populations" are "inherently and deeply implausible."
The effects of stereotype threat have been proposed as an explanation for differences in IQ test performance between racial groups, as have issues related to cultural difference and access to education.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#High_IQ_societies
Conversely, throughout human history, people of all races, men and women, have consistently demonstrated the intellectual acuity to create phenomenal achievements in all sciences and related technologies. For example:
Frederick McKinley Jones
(May 17, 1893 – February 21, 1961)
An African-American inventor, entrepreneur, winner of the National Medal of Technology, and inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. His innovations in refrigeration brought great improvement to the long-haul transportation of perishable goods. Jones also cofounded Thermo King.
Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty
Born, April 4 April 1938 (age 79)
An Indian (Bengali)- American microbiologist, scientist, and researcher, most notable for his work
in directed evolution and his role in developing a genetically engineered organism using plasmid transfer while working at GE, the patent for which led
to landmark Supreme Court case, Diamond v. Chakrabarty.Movable metal type was invented in Korea in the early thirteenth century, predating Gutenberg’s invention in Europe by two centuries. The first book to be printed with movable metal type is the Prescribed Ritual Texts of the Past and Present in 1234 during the Goryeo period. The earliest surviving book to be printed with movable metal type is the Jikji, dated to 1377. The Jikji was written by the Buddhist monk Baegun (1298–1374, Buddhist name Gyeonghan), who served as the chief priest of Anguk and Shingwang temples in Haeju, and was published in two volumes in Seongbulsan in 1372. Baegun died in Chwiam Temple in Yeoju in 1374.
Lori Arviso Alvord
(Born 1958)
A Native American surgeon and author, Dr. Lori Arviso Alvord is perhaps best known for being the first Diné (Navajo) woman to ever become board certified in surgery. Her autobiography, "The Scalpel and the Silver Bear," brought significant attention to her career as a surgeon and has sold over 50,000 copies. Dr. Alvord was also nominated to serve as the U.S. Surgeon General in 2013. Dr. Alvord uses new techniques that bring together Navajo healing techniques and modern Western Medicine.
Francisco Javier
"Frank" Duarte
Born c. 1954
Francisco Duarte, PhD is a Chilean-born laser physicist and author/editor of several well-known books on tunable lasers and quantum optics. He introduced the generalized multiple-prism dispersion theory, has discovered various multiple-prism grating oscillator laser configurations, and introduced polymer-nanoparticle gain media. These contributions have found applications in a variety of fields including:
* atomic vapor laser isotope separation
* laser medicine
* laser microscopy
* laser pulse compression
* laser spectroscopy
* nonlinear optics
* tunable diode lasers
Duarte's research has mainly focused on physical and laser optics and has taken place at a number of institutions in the academic, industrial, and defense sectors.Some people want you to believe . . . some test batteries show slightly greater intelligence in males, others show greater intelligence in females
With the advent of the concept of g or general intelligence, many researchers have argued that there are no significant sex differences in general intelligence, though ability in particular types of intelligence does appear to vary. Thus, while some test batteries show slightly greater intelligence in males, others show greater intelligence in females. In particular, studies have shown female subjects performing better on tasks related to verbal ability, and males performing better on tasks related to rotation of objects in space, often categorized as spatial ability. These differences remain, as Hunt (2011) observes, "even though men and women are essentially equal in general intelligence."
Some research indicates that male advantages on some cognitive tests are minimized when controlling for socioeconomic factors. Other research has concluded that there is slightly larger variability in male scores in certain areas compared to female scores, which results in slightly more males than females in the top and bottom of the IQ distribution. jr
The existence of differences between male and female performance on math-related tests is contested, and a meta-analysis focusing on gender differences in math performance found nearly identical performance for boys and girls. Currently, most IQ tests, including popular batteries such as the WAIS and the WISC-R, are constructed so that there are no overall score differences between females and males.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#High_IQ_societies
Conversely, throughout human history, without regard to sex, gender, age, race, or whatever, people have consistently demonstrated the intellectual acuity to create phenomenal achievements in all aspects of society.
Some people want you to believe . . . children, teenagers, and even older young males and females are bereft of intellect, talent, resourcefulness, discipline, commitment, ingenuity, etc. However, history validates individual achievement is not confined to age.
Joan of Arc
at 19
Born, May 30, 1431Stevie Wonder
at 11
Born, May 13, 1950
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at 5
Born, January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791Sor Juana
Inés de la Cruz, 12
November 12, 1648 – April 17, 1695Tutankhamun, 8
(c. 1341 – c. 1323 BC)
A patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War. Stating that she was acting under divine guidance, she became a military leader who transcended gender roles and gained recognition as a savior of France.
Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. an American singer-songwriter, who is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues, pop, soul, gospel, funk and jazz. A virtual one-man band, Wonder's use of synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of R&B.
Born in Salzburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. His father took him on a grand tour of Europe and then three trips to Italy. At 17, he was a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz learned to read as a toddler and quickly blazed through all the books in her grandfather’s library. Despite being denied a formal education because of her gender, she began writing religious poetry at age 8 and later taught herself Latin, supposedly mastering it in just 20 lessons. By her adolescence, she had also studied Greek logic and learned an Aztec language called Nahuatl. Juana’s reputation for genius later won her a place as a lady-in-waiting at the viceroy’s court in Mexico City. When she was 17, she was famously tested by a panel of 40 university professors, all of whom were shocked by her deep knowledge of philosophy, mathematics and history. The former child prodigy entered a convent at age 20 and spent the rest of her life as a cloistered nun.
Commonly referred to as King Tut, was an Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th Dynasty (ruled c. 1332 – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology) during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history. Tutankhamun took the throne at eight or nine years of age under the unprecedented viziership of his eventual successor, Ay, to whom he may have been related. He married his paternal half-sister Ankhesenamun. During their marriage they lost two daughters, one at 5–6 months of pregnancy and the other shortly after birth at full-term.
Some people want you to believe . . . your entire life should be defined by . . .
Normalized IQ distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation (plus+ or minus-) of 15.
The abbreviation "IQ" was coined by the German psychologist William Stern for the German term Intelligenzquotient, his term for a scoring method for intelligence tests at University of Breslau he advocated in a 1912 book.
Clearly, for elite, well-educated, slave-owning, God-fearing White men who have always made "the rules" and defined exceptions to "the rules," it was not "self-evident" that all people are created equal, or they would have said so.
Some people want you to believe . . . we have the intelligence to live together, peacefully . . .
The message here (http://www.tripoetry.com/Black.htm#14), which is also validated in the book, "Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America Hardcover – October 6, 2009 (2009, Rich Benjamin)" is very simple; unlike people of color, White people, especially affluent White people and their brainwashed lackeys, intentionally chose to live in and restrict the establishment of businesses in neighborhoods with decidedly low minority representation; and the majority of White people, especially affluent White people and their brainwashed lackeys, will leave, typically called "White Flight," rather than interact with minorities. For the most part, White people are not as likely to "accept" minorities living in their neighborhoods; conversely, minorities are more likely to "accept" White people living in their neighborhoods.
Without regard to our collective "intelligence," nothing changes. Welcome to America!
"Four-(4) percent of the American people own eighty-five-(85) percent of the wealth of America; and over seventy-(70) percent of the people of America don't own enough to pay the debts they own." Huey Long, December 11, 1935
Eighty-seven-(87) years later, the wealth gap is worse than ever before, as one-(1) percent of Americans hold nearly 50% of the wealth, topping even the levels seen just before the Great Depression in the 1920s (Davies, Sandstrom, Shorrocks, & Wolff, 2009; Keister, 2000; Wolff, 2002).
Some people want you to believe . . . your life is unsuccessful, a total failure if you don't have a big and expensive car, big and expensive house, a bunch of money or even better enormous wealth, power, and an extremely robust achievement of local, state, national, and international awards and trophies.
Some people want you to believe . . . anything. Instead, conduct your own due diligence and empirical analysis to deduce facts, proof, evidence, and validation.
You might promptly or eventually discover that what some people want you to believe is a bunch of crap.
I welcome your feedback.
Trip Reynolds
trip.reynolds@yahoo.com
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