From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 15:22:47 MDT
> Damien,
> I agree. And my reading of Herrnstein & Murray is that they agree
> also. In fact I think those of us that have written in support of H & M
> would almost universally agree. That is the reason I at least am always so
> surprised by people that try to play the race card against The Bell Curve.
> Maybe we can get past this argument. Ron h.
I had a minor epiphany while on my little techno-
humanitarian effort last week in Missouri, from
which I just returned. We were doing some family
history research in our spare time there, quite
successfully I might add.
Herrnstein and Murray argue that IQ is real and
inheritable. From there, critics drag in the
race card, but I submit for evidence the small
towns in southern Missouri, all inhabitants
thereof as white as the Pillsbury dough boy.
There one can see a clear example of declining IQ
in a population (it certainly appeared that way
to me).
I theorize this is due to having generation after
generation where all the local offspring with
a modicum of brains or ambition leave town at
the first opportunity, and head for the city
where such gifts can be utilized. Those without
these traits were left back to breed the next
generation. And the next and the next.
The town where we found the ancestors (and stay-
at-home distant cousins) had a population of about
400 at the dawn of the twentieth century, and
a little less than 300 today. I think M and H
would argue this is *exactly* the points they
were trying to show in the Bell Curve, that
IQ is real, measurable, and inheritable.
Friends, go there, see it for yourself. It
is closer than the Galapagos. spike
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