I’m pretty sure that it wouldn’t have, though I don’t know enough about the contextual particulars of the industrial revolution to be extremely confident.
I think that studying the biographies of the inventors (to the extent that information is available) would show them all to be of IQ > 130. One could argue that counterfactually their less smart peers would have gotten there later on. There are reasons to think that if this is the case, the lag would have been very long, which I’ll flesh out later on in my sequence of posts.
I’m pretty sure that it wouldn’t have, though I don’t know enough about the contextual particulars of the industrial revolution to be extremely confident.
I think that studying the biographies of the inventors (to the extent that information is available) would show them all to be of IQ > 130. One could argue that counterfactually their less smart peers would have gotten there later on. There are reasons to think that if this is the case, the lag would have been very long, which I’ll flesh out later on in my sequence of posts.