Thread: well that explains a few things!

Originally Posted by Rurover

Here's an alternative theory for the epidemic of dumbness.
If you happened to see the ABC TV science program, "Catalyst" on Tuesday night, you would have heard respected scientists say that our ingestion of lead from the Tetra Ethyl Lead usied in our petrol, lowered the IQ of many people by around 5 points.... Very significant apparently.

The program in fact showed that this exposure to lead also resulted in a dramatic increase in violent crime, particularly in city areas where the concentration was highest.

So if we believe THIS theory, then Ipso facto, most city people are dumber than those of us that live in the cleaner country air.
Yeah, that seems to fit with my observations!

Alan

Doesn't fit with your spelling, though.
You'd be hard pressed distinguishing the difference between a person with an IQ of 150 and a person with an IQ of 145.

Actually, health problems are usually worse in the country than in the city. Cities are healthier than rural areas. More people have chronic sicknesses, get injured and are depressed and suicidal in the bush than in the cities. Logically then, its dumb to deliberately live in the bush because you're more likely to get sick or injured or killed or kill yourself. Therefore, the smarter people are in the cities. Ha ha!

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Actually, health problems are usually worse in the country than in the city. Cities are healthier than rural areas. More people have chronic sicknesses, get injured and are depressed and suicidal in the bush than in the cities. Logically then, its dumb to deliberately live in the bush because you're more likely to get sick or injured or killed or kill yourself. Therefore, the smarter people are in the cities. Ha ha!

That should mean that the healthiest people live on the edges of cities where they have easy access to medical help, a good job close by, have a house in a low traffic street with a nice big garden to grow the veggies in, and not big enough to need a tractor or other powered implement to kill you too soon. Sounds like home to me.