Tom, At 10:06 02/11/02 -0600, you wrote: >You leave out the Dubya factor. Should Dubya's genes be included in the gene pool? The world is loaded with macho-Dubyas whose principal function is life is to spread their seed. > >Sorry, Keith, but this is Spencerian/Ricardian philosophy that doesn't take into account the difference between intelligence and alpha-maledom. Persons far less than brilliant but possessing a high degree of ambition or even rapacity, have always and will always form a large portion of the upper-class gene pool. > >The idea that society separates itself out by intelligence somewhat like the levels of a petroleum fractioning tower fails on this very point.
M'mm -- wouldn't have thought so. I'd agree that Bush is far from being bright, but homo sapiens' brain evolved to become twice the size of homo erectus' well within about about a couple of million year -- an amazingly rapid development that was nothing to do with muscularity and everything to do with conceptual development and foresight. > >Unless, of course, there is a significant correlation between rapacity and g. Even more unlikely! Keith > >Tom > >>For those FWers who may be interested in the possibility of an IQ divide >>within modern society, the following e-mail to a friend might be of interest. >> >><<<< >>Already, to a considerably extent, populations in developed countries are >>dividing into two IQ portions -- let me call them "A"s and "B"s. This is >>evidenced by increasing income differentials and surveys showing decreasing >>generational movement between social classes (at least this is so in >>England and I suspect it's so in other advanced countries). Regression to >>the mean takes place in both "halves", of course, and a certain amount of >>interbreeding will always take place but, if the skill requirements of the >>modern world keep on increasing then unless basic education inmproves out >>of all recognition then the selection process within education will have to >>compensate increasingly for these effects and maintain separation for the >>sake of economic efficiency. At least, this will continue until the >>education system is no longer able to select and supply enough high-IQ >>people to keep the overall system going (that is, without immigration of >>high talent). > >-- >_________________________________________________________________________ >Tom Lowe One of the most powerful aspects of >Jackson, Mississippi delusion, or ignorance, is the belief >[EMAIL PROTECTED] that what we do does not really matter >http://www.jacksonprogressive.com -- Sharon Salzberg > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:khudson@;handlo.com ________________________________________________________________________
