Re: IQ AND RACE? HUH?
Stephen Lajoie (lajoie@eskimo.com)
Sat, 11 Feb 1995 18:29:21 GMT
In article <3hc7ne$2qa@panix.com>, J Lopez <jlopez@panix.com> wrote:
>In <ISBELL.95Feb8184149@panther.ai.mit.edu> isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell) writes:
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>>lajoie@eskimo.com (Stephen Lajoie) writes:
>>>>>>So, is "hardworkingness" a part of intelligence?
>>>>>No.
>>>>You sound awfully sure of that. I think it is.
>>>And I think you're wrong. One is a personality trait that is learned. The
>>>other is an ability that is influenced by environment and genetics.
>>[...]
>
>>What makes you so sure? Why are some persons just "naturally" more
>>persistent/hardworking/whatever than others? Why can`t it have some
>>basis in genetics?
>
>>--
>>Peace.
>
>We already have strong evidence that there are genetic differences between
>"Type A" and "Type B" personalities. Not much of a stretch to see a
>genetic correlation in hardworkingness, but since it is more elegant for
>genetic racists to have us believe that the only relevant factor of the
>brain is IQ, then other possibilities get pushed to the side, or even
>worse, totally ignored.
>
Well, okay. Tell me about the genetic link between Type A and Type B
personalities, how it realated to intellectual "hardworkingness" by your
stretch, and why intellectual "hardworkingness" is genetic yet IQ is not.
I've read about the Minnisota twins study, and the genetic factors
involved in personality. Tell me more.
>
>> "Black music is in, Black culture is in,
>> but Black _people_ will never be in."
>> -Kyle Baker, Why I Hate Saturn
>
>(Kyle Baker is all that!)
>--
>jlopez :: "How the hell can you write an essay on E. M. Forster with almost
> total reference to Harold Robbins?" --Willy Russell
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Steve La Joie
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