More support...however...

But we do know that, wherever freedom and technology advance, life is an uphill battle for people who are below average in proficiency at learning, solving problems and mastering complexity. We also know that the trajectories of mental development are not easily deflected. Individual IQ levels tend to remain unchanged from adolescence onward, and despite strenuous efforts over the past half a century, attempts to raise g permanently through adoption or educational means have failed. If there is a reliable, ethical way to raise or equalize levels of g, no one has found it (Gottfredson, 2006).

However, such a view ignores the capitalist philosophy that industrialized societies function by; information is withheld from those who "don't know" so as to maintain power imbalances (1); circumstances such as poverty, experiences of prejudice and stereotyping denying equality of outcomes, let alone equality of access to opportunities and resources (2), are ignored as to their influence on affecting a person's IQ.

The view also ignores that those of us "living in freedom" experience the highest rates of depression (3), suicide (4), are amongst the nations with the highest poverty levels (outranking even those of some developing nations) (5), have populations that are slaves to consumption unable to save (6), most citizens live in debt (7), and are obligated to work in order to survive in our commercial culture (8). The view also assumes that technological "advances" are a positive, neglecting to contemplate the near extinction of our species due to pollution, destabilization of eco-systems, and salient examples of inhumanity for social power and profit (9).

Ref:

Gottfredson, L.S. (1998). The General Intelligence Factor. Scientific America, Retrieved June 29, 2006, from http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/~reingold/courses/
intelligence/cache/1198gottfred.html

1. http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/Ockham/y64l06.html

2. http://johnmolyneux.blogspot.com/2007/03/marxism-and-oppression.html

3. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_21-10-2004_pg3_3

4. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article996719.ece

5. http://www.aifs.gov.au/institute/pubs/fm/fm54bb.html

6. http://www.pbs.org/wsw/news/fortunearticle_20050308_01.html

7. http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/wolff151005.html

8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

9. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/2007/03/how_ethical_is_my_baby.html