[nohate.gather.com]IQ and Race: "Intellectual Inferiority," My ___!

Will do.

I'm glad he recognized that the subject needs explaination ... not that it could be explained away.

Thanks, guys!!!

I found an article that explained the Flynn Effect, in an easy to understand manner.

(of course I have an IQ of 1,000 *chuckle*)

The entire thrust of Flynn's position seems to me, to be merely common sense. If you place a very smart child, in an environment of no competition, no motivation, you'll end up with a rather dull adult.

If you place a slower learning child, in an environment of high competition, and give him incentives for high motivation, you'll end up with an adult ready to succeed at whatever he does.

Thanks, jJack. It does sound "commonsensical".

Shoot, I forgot to post the link to the article HERE IT IS.

Right on. Thank you much.

Watson (is he still alive?) made news about 2 months ago (I remember, because I weighed in on a few posts when I actively joined G), and, stated that his comments were taken "out of context." I have no idea what the "Flynn Effect" is, unless it has something to do with a popular former mayor of Boston.

And, to shoot down jjack's theory-I was labeled as a child with "superior intelligence." Despite my inadequate (for lack of a better word) environment growing up, I am not a "dull" person, nor dumb, lacking of social skills, whatever. No, I didn't grow up in the jungle, but if you have the smarts, your #1 tool is adaptability!

Mari, jJack posted a link to an article about it - or, you can listen to the report that I linked. And yeah, his theory doesn't necessarily work all the time - you sure don't seem dull!

Thanks, Kathleen. The dog and rabbit example she refers to from the interview has to do with how kids in the 19th century would describe the similarities between a dog and a rabbit vs. how kids today would.

to shoot down jjack's theory-

It isn't "my theory," it is Flynn's-- I simply restated it, concisely. Sheesh, don't these people read the supplemental links offered to explain what this article did not???

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I found the article this article linked to ridiculously unintelligent.

I wouldn't worry about my IQ status. It is this curse of blond hair that has sterotyped me into a group that sometimes makes me a key member.

I am going to check out the group.

Happy Holdiays,

I think he had a number of points that made sense, and a few that didn't. Frankly, I don't think there should be standardized tests to determine the measure of a person's worth; rather, there should be standardized practices that should be administered individually.

For example, in a standardized test, knowledge is of paramount importance. If an individual of high intelligence takes an IQ test but doesn't have the requisite knowledge on which the test is based, then that individual will score quite poorly. Case in point are his comments about Thomas Edison scoring low on a standardized IQ test but then creating his own IQ test that no one else could pass.

I would suppose that this all goes back to the old axiom of the differences amoung knowledge, intelligence, and wisdom (which some have expanded to include data and information). And this comment is now turning into a post so I think I'm going to create a separate post about this and then link to it here as another comment (since we can't edit our comments once posted) :) Ah, the work that has to be done today--it's neverending!!!!

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