Re: The Bell Curve globally viewed

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:56:29 -0700, El Castor wrote:


And their work is supported by some of the most distinguished
psychologists of the 20th century. Besides, what is there to disagree
with?

1. Income and intelligence are connected. Proved beyond a shadow of a
doubt.

No, there's no way to know for sure as the definition of intelligence is
often disputed by those that prefer a self serving definition. There is a
positive correlation, not connection, between IQ and income for a vary
obvious reason. IQ measures college test taking ability and the more
demanding the college, the more likely there will be higher income. This
is mentioned in the "Bell Curve," but most dummies need someone to read it
to them and this isn't the most exciting part. If problem solving is the
accepted measure of intelligence, than everyone except engineers are
stupid. That may be going too far, but it certainly weeds out economists.


2. Intelligence is inherited. Proved beyond a shadow of a doubt.

No, all that's known is poor people can't afford the same learning
environment as rich people. The more practice in taking an IQ
type test, the higher will be the score. However, the "Bell Curve" also
points out that there's a phenomena called, I believe, returning to the
mean which means that the offspring's of intelligent people will
return to the natural intelligence level of their ancestors and must rely
on the environmental component of intelligence.


3. Intelligence varies between racial and ethnic groups. Proved beyond a
shadow of a doubt.

No, again only IQ varies, a white person is at a disadvantage in solving
problems that other races, yellow and black, excel at and visa versa.
Until intelligence is understood the best measure is in competition, as in
how come we haven't won a war of substance for the last fifty some years.


Please don't make me drag out Arthur Jensen and Thomas Bouchard, two of
the most distinguished researchers in intelligence of the 20th century.
The sad fact is that science and economics often trump your political
view of the world. Even liberals have to face reality now and then.

Jeff

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never
reasoned into." Jonathan Swift

--
Glenn

.

Relevant Pages

  • Peters worldwide leting
    ... He can learn no if Alhadin's shadow isn't unhappy. ... absolute department were overlooking but the required kiosk. ... crown in connection with the notable forehead? ...
    (sci.crypt)
  • Re: web site update - our hay bale garden featured
    ... yes we would all like to earn some respecatble money but then there i ... our isp offers for a free homepage, and of course then the isp doens't ... once we would have supplemented our income, ... my connection is a broadband connection so it is connected at all ...
    (rec.gardens.edible)
  • Re: Strange Exchange 2003 Behavior
    ... So connection from your SMTP gateway to Exhange machine is disconnected? ... Can you connect to Exchange on port 25 via Telnet? ... Shadow wrote: ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.admin)
  • Re: Volume Shadow Copy question....
    ... VSS (the Volume Shadow Copy Service) is actually connecting only to ... the SQL Server/MSDE databases on the machine (part of the reason is ... attempt to connect to the Internet. ... In reality, the connection is to ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
  • Re: Arrows, Shadow and design copying
    ... debut and their car looked astonishingly like the Shadow. ... the case that Arrows was begun by guys who'd had a close connection ...
    (rec.autos.sport.f1)