Hi Ed, You miss the point I'm making.
Whatever the deficiencies of the IQ score as regards the desirable cultural characteristics of man, it certainly correlates with success in today's society and the predominant technocratic society into which we are moving. I am not justifying present society nor deprecating older societies. IQ may be just "a bunch of junk!" (though I'm surprised at your writing this!) from a different perspective. I am merely saying the evidence seems quite strong that in tomorrow's world China is likely to displace America as the predominant power because East Asians are cleverer than Caucasion whites. Keith At 09:22 22/03/02 -0500, you wrote: > >Keith Hudson, >> >> So, although it is not politically correct to say so, the evidence seems >to >> be building up that, whatever IQ happens to be, it is measurably different >> between different 'races' and has a direct relationship with scholastic >and >> business ability, and also in civilised, peacable behaviour. >> >> Being a Causasian white belonging to a 'race' with a mean IQ of 100, I >> don't think I can be charged with prejudice when suggesting that central >> Asians (Indians and Pakistanis) with a probable mean IQ of about 120, and >> East Asians (Chinese) with a mean IQ of about 140, deriving from the >> circumstances of the two large migrations out of Africa during the last >two >> Inter-Glacials, will probably take over the role of the white man in the >> coming decades. >> >> Keith Hudson > >Ever so much depends on what, as cultures, we value and therefore measure >about ourselves. Ever so many things I've read suggest that the human >capacity to think does not vary significantly from racial group to racial >group, but how and to what that thinking is applied varies enormously. If I >were to take an IQ test written by a traditional Athapascan Indian from far >northern Canada, I would fail dismally, just as he would fail dismally if he >were to write an IQ test written for white or asian academics and >businessmen living in the suburbs of Toronto. I think the kinds of good / >bad behaviour characteristics you describe can be explained by many factors >other than innate intelligence. > >We've been down this race and intelligence road before. A Canadian academic >once argued that intelligence varies inversely with the length of the penis, >and because some Africans have longer penises, they must be less >intelligent. It's a bunch of junk! > >Ed Weick __________________________________________________________ “Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.” John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
