1> We have a long way to go before we have the genome mapped, a couple years at
least.
2> We still dont have a real good idea about what genes are related to
intelligence (although there was a recent genetic finding that aids
considerably)
3> The historical record of technical acheivement would put a high percentage of
ground braking science firmly in the caucasions court, and mostly in the United
States. I don't suspect that genes had a lot to do with it, so perhaps the
capitalistic and/or freedom meme that has been running rampant in the USA for so
long, has overpowered better equiped minds elsewhere in the world.
Sodom
Bill Roh
Ronan the Great wrote:
> -----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
> ---
> Michal Kulczycki
> University of Wroclaw, Psychology Dept.
> E-mail: ronan@dawid.uni.wroc.pl
> ICQ #: 8954988