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I'm not sure how you can do this kind of social research and be absolutely sure about the results you'll find, apart from taking a sample, measuring and trying to concatenate one fact with the other.

What nobody knows is the exact weight of this factor in the unknown equation which governs human intelligence. Hence from a scientific point of view:

"Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations […] may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be." - Roger Cotes.

Excerpt from the preface to Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, second edition, 1713.



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