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Intelligence can be a very difficult power to control.
One of his points is that one has to view IQ as immutable in order for the arguements in TBC to stand up, but that it has been shown that test scores can be improved by training. I don't think there would be much difference in society. Doubling everyone would be another matter. It is a credit to humanity that creativity and insight prevail and yes, flourish, when our limits are and have been so predetermined for us, Imagine what we could accomplish as a species if we allowed ourselves to. Needless to say, at the bottom line, I'm with Lauren Lock.