Keith,
What is your source for the IQ differentials?
arthur cordell
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From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 1:24 AM
To: pete
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sephardics vs Ashkenazis (was RE: Rookies)
Hi Pete,
I'm sorry if the two
Hi Karen,
At 11:58 03/07/02 -0700, you wrote:
Keith, I've just been listening in and occasionally commenting on FW for
about a month now, so it helps me to read summaries of previous
conversations. So I apologize in advance if I cover ground that to me is new
but worn to the rest of you. I'm
Hi Pete,
I'm sorry if the two paragraphs of mine below gave the impression that I
thought the mandarinate system in China and the monastic system in Europe
had genetic effects. I gave those as examples of systematic/significant
selection of talent in previous times with, probably, significant
Hi Ed,
I've repeated some aspect of the nature vs. nurture divide in my previous
message (Bagatelle) so I'll cut straight down to the place where you're
charging me with a static position.
(EW)
. . . . I would suggest that you take a rather static view of society and
fail to give
Hi Ray,
(REH)
Karen, Keith,
Good job on this. I would make a couple of points which you may or may not
use.
1. Poor teacher performance and attitudes did not originate with the Unions
which originated in the 1960s and which no one likes but is the only
alternative to a management system that
Keith said:
Being hierarchical is beside the point,
surely. The point is that they were both meritocratic. (Incidentally,
both the societies were, if anything, much more partial to democratic
notions than the traditional aristocracy. The sheer numbers of
mandarins required meant that
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From: "Keith Hudson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Ray Evans Harrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "Karen Watters Cole" [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: Outrage ( was Re:
Rookies)
Hi Ray,
Hi Ed,
I've repeated some aspect of the nature vs. nurture divide in my previous
message (Bagatelle) so I'll cut straight down to the place where you're
charging me with a static position.
Keith, it's not a charge. It's just a comment, perhaps a bad one.
(EW)
. . . . I would
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Subject: Re: Mandarins and Monks ( was Re: Rookies)
Hi Ed,
I've repeated some aspect of the nature vs. nurture divide in
my previous
message (Bagatelle) so I'll cut straight down to the place
where you're
charging me with a static position.
Keith, it's not a charge. It's just a comment
Hi Karen,
At 08:45 30/06/02 -0700, you wrote:
Good morning, Keith. While I am naturally sympathetic to the teaching
profession and understand Levine's arguments that teaching is more than
knowledge of subject matter, I do see the point you made about accelerating
further divisions and
Karen, Keith,
Good job on this. I would make a
couple of points which you may or may not use.
1. Poor teacher performance and attitudes did not
originate with the Unions which originated in the 1960s and which no one likes
but is the only alternative to a management system that is
Keith Hudson:
As education and higher skills become more necessary (and selectable) in a
modern high-tech society, and if intelligence and ability is indeed
genetic
to a significant extent (as most specialists would agree), then several
selection effects might be occurring -- among which
Good morning, Keith. While I am naturally sympathetic to the teaching
profession and understand Levine's arguments that teaching is more than
knowledge of subject matter, I do see the point you made about accelerating
further divisions and conflicting priorities within the education
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