Why? Because of the number of non-conforming.
The number of highly intelligent people that come from lower intelligence (appearing) parents. The number of 'seemingly' lower intelligent people coming from highly intelligent parents. So, 'Can you determine an 'intelligence level' based upon the human genome structure?' -- I am guessing that you probably can. Then, 'Can you determine an 'intelligence level' based upon the skin color of an individual?'. No. If the first is true, then it is controlled by the genes, and another genetic trait would not suppress the other. Race is a result of a combination of genes, not a single gene. As you said... 'curly hair'. Well, I know a lot of black people who have curly hair and a number of Irish people who have it as well. As someone else mentioned. Some cultures have an anti-intelligence structure. Which can/has suppressed many person's intelligence. The capacity is there, but the use is not. This does not mean that any number of individuals from those culture communities may not 'break' from the norm and explore their intelligence. And who are we (you!) to judge them for their efforts? William -- William E. Seiter Have you ever read a book that changed your life? Go to: www.winninginthemargins.com Enter passkey: goldengrove Web Developer http://William.Seiter.com Gruss wrote: What I'm saying makes much more sense: (1.) "intelligence" is 100% determined by genetics. (2.) We can create taxonomies to describe genetic traits: black people, curly haired people, Packer's fans. (3.) It's 100% likely that a certain code of genes gives you certain mental abilities. We could group them all up and call them "intelligence" or we could split them up and call them "emotional intelligence", "language intelligence", etc. Therefore, depending on the taxonomies we create, we could create a probability structure based on a population survey that would give a probably of an individual having trait X given that they have trait Y. Or we could just all admit that an Augustinian priest has done this 100 years ago with pea plants and be done with it. Why is it so damn hard for people to admit that their intelligence is genetically determined and that it may be tied to other genetic traits like number of moles or length of fingers. For some reason if you imply that it might be skin color, as Dr. Watson did, people freak out. Seems just a likely as anything else to me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245348 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
