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Igel

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6. The increase in CO2 is trivial compared with what's needed to affect thinking.

Reply to AngryAmish (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 8, 2015, 11:26 AM

Nov 2015

So we expect no drop on that account.

We've been taught to take the test and think the same way as the test takers expect intelligent people to think. Diversity need not apply. That's actually Flynn's hypothesis, not mine.

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