From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 21:31:06 MDT
In a message dated 9/14/2002 9:34:31 PM Central Standard Time,
d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au writes: I had in mind the mixing after
several generations. I'm not sure how the mixing process works, but Eysenck,
not known for his far-left views, was where I learned about `regression to
the mean' in IQ.
Damien,
I am certainly not a psychometrician. But I have many Hi IQ friends,
have belonged to a couple of very different groups where the Hi IQs gather
and read not just TBC but other standard works about the HiIQ types.
After reading TBC with their statements about how the "cognitively
elite" only started getting together in a big way after about 1900 AD I have
observed the world and came to one tentative conclusion -- I doubt if even
the best of the psychologists have had the opportunity to study large enough
numbers of the "CE" to even know much about them.
For example, in one piece of literature I found a reference to an
identifiable segment of the CE that come from families that were CE. They
have a good childhood, do well in school, enter well paying professions,
marry CE spouses, have CE children and generally just disappear into the wood
work -- too dull to be noticed.
Look at Robert Heinlein. He came from a family of CE. He graduated
fifth in his class at Annapolis before being marked down to 20th for his
accumulated demerits -- he was caught AWOL chasing girls. He became a well
paid author, wrote his books, associated with others of his choice and except
for the bookshelves is almost totally unknown.
Ron h
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