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Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?
Bob Whitaker (bwhit@conterra.com)
Fri, 15 Nov 1996 13:02:18 -0500
Lorne Beaton wrote:
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> In article <3285741B.3C9C@conterra.com>,
> Bob Whitaker <bwhit@conterra.com> wrote:
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> > That's all Politically Correct, but has nothing to do with the facts.
>
> A statement can be perfectly Politically Correct and still be true. If
> your worst enemy said the sky was blue, would you insist it was green
> just to spite him?
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> > Intelligence is so obvious that even some idiot psychologist has to
> >be able to find it. higher IQ's correlate with better health, height,
> >and about everything else.
> > My brother, a neurologist, found a very practical use for this. You
> >can find the shortest two percent of a group of children of a given
> >age, and half of them ar in the lowest two percent of IQ.
>
> This sounds plausible, albeit anecdotal. If someone undertook an empirical
> study of those children, would they also find that low IQ and shortness
> also correlate with, say, malnutrition or early childhood illness? What
> does any of this have to do with race?
> --
> Lorne Beaton: beaton1@server.uwindsor.ca
> ----------------------------------------
> "I am not Montel Williams.
> I AM NOT MONTEL WILLIAMS!" - John Munch
Not in the same classes, and not to that extreme extent.
But that is what you want to believe, so that is what you'll believe.
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