Sweet. So let's just test everyone at birth, then discard those that don't make the cut. That way, we'll be able to keep health costs sufficiently low.<p>Should be easy once we liberalize the laws on abortion. Hmm... but people might object to their less fit children being eliminated....<p>Better not tell them. We'll just let the Doctors make the decisions. They always know best anyway. After all, why else would we give them white coats?<p>"Genetic fitness" was at the heart of every terrible ideology of the past century. Watch out for this type of thinking. Its the first step to a place you don't want to be....
Oh, yeesh, a Gottfredson publication in the journal Intelligence. The obligatory link for any discussion of a report on a research result like that is the article by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research.<p><a href="http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html" rel="nofollow">http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html</a><p>Check each news story you read for how many of the important issues in interpreting research are NOT discussed in the story.
This strikes me as a really weird hypothesis. The idea of some over-arching "fitness factor" existing outside of the huge variety of genetic traits that apply to aspects of physical and mental ability sounds like comic-book science.