RE: Pinker's How the Mind Works + The Blank Slate

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 15:05:27 MDT


owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>>
>> ### I wonder if mentioning this book will earn you accusations of
>> being a barbarian, racist, or maybe even a Nazi. After all, Pinker
>> reiterates the notion universally accepted by psychologists, that
>> the variation in intelligence is predominantly determined by genetics
>
> Not that I noticed. Are you sure you're not confusing Pinker's
> evolutionary psychology with the quite separate discipline of
> behavioral genetics?

### The cryptic way is carrying over from SL4 - but bear with me, your
question needs to be couched in simpler and more explicit terms.

Rafal



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