donutkolar wrote
And what should this exam be? Many so-called "qualified" parents that professors make very bad parents, drinking alcohol, smoking, being headless and having low interactions with their children. And many parents that you would consider "unqualified" turn out be really great parents.
foggymorn OP wrote
I'm not personally advocating for an exam, I just wanted to debate.
tnstaec wrote
And who gets to decide the exam, and to administer it?
Chomskyist wrote (edited )
The community. It would simply be to determine if they are capable parents, like to make sure they won't abuse the child emotionally or physically. A lot of people with abusive parents feel this way, wish that our parents had been forced to take parenting classes.
tonamejustafew wrote
IQ. Administered by the same people where you test your IQ. We shouldn't ignore the facts, as Sam Harris says IQ is a reliable measure of intelligence and that's a fact of science.
mofongo wrote
No, just no.
tonamejustafew wrote (edited )
Are we going to ignore the facts just because they make us uncomfortable? Sam Harris for your information has a Phd in neurobiology.
WhereIsMyFreeStuff wrote (edited )
Hey, why don't you have a look at these facts I found
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iq-scores-not-accurate-marker-of-intelligence-study-shows/
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627312005843
Just because he has a PhD in something doesn't mean he can't lie about shit to further his agenda
foggymorn OP wrote (edited )
Sam Harris for your information
any sentence that starts like that doesn't need to be vocalized.
Your 'facts' are completely non existent.
tnstaec wrote
Sam Harris is a War on Terror cheerleader.
J7383 wrote
Intelligence has nothing to do with your ability to nurture a human life. Some of the smartest people in the world are sociopaths.
foggymorn OP wrote
You're saying only intelligent people should be able to reproduce? Wtf?
Boostimainia wrote
Responsible people
Chomskyist wrote
IQ has nothing to do with being a good parent.
robottroymacclure wrote
IQ is only one of several metrics used to measure intelligence without reference to an individuals other scores IQ is relatively useless.
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