Re: virus: Hail Virus!

Ronan the Great (ronan@dawid.uni.wroc.pl)
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 19:21:46 +0200


-----Original Message-----
From: Eva-Lise Carlstrom <eva-lise@efn.org>
To: Virus <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: 12 czerwca 1998 19:13
Subject: Re: virus: Hail Virus!

>It sounds to me as if you are assuming that which is to be proven: that
>there are overall genetic differences in certain cognitive abilities
>between the populations of different areas of the world. I have not seen
>any compelling evidence that this is the case.

In fact I have seen a lot of them, even explicite. Eg. As I wrote somewhere
else, they were prove during WAIS-R normalization procedure.

>Have you read Steven Jay Gould's book _The Mismeasure of Man_? I do not
>know whether it is available in Polish (I didn't find a Polish version
>with a search of Amazon.com's site), but I highly recommend it if you
>haven't read it.

There is no Polish edition. Yes I read his book and I don't want to argue
about it. This book is considered populistic [?], leftistic [?], and
'pollitically correct' to the excess. I don't find it even rational, and I
am aware of several publications bringing Gould's thesis down[?]. Authors
statements look like creationism opposition to evolutionionisn, which means
they are only negative and critical.

One more thing, I am NOT polliticaly correct, and I don't want to be also. I
don't care if some considers some experimental data rascist. I am not a
rascist.
It seems to me pretty obvious that the idea of heritable intelligence, and
different intelligence profiles among ethnical groups aren't very popular in
here. I don't find myself capable to fight this, even because my English
isn't fluent enough.

Anyway, thank you

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Michal Kulczycki
University of Wroclaw, Psychology Dept.
E-mail: ronan@dawid.uni.wroc.pl
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