From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 12:06:20 MDT
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, spike66 wrote:
> My question then is "what is the mechanism
> that could cause low IQ in these isolated communties?"
> I suggested one: those with brains or ambition leave
> town, and the breeding is left to the stay-at-homes.
In many poor towns you can't get out of town.
> Do we need any other explanation beyond this one?
> Could inbreeding play a role? Would that in general
> reduce the *average* IQ of an isolated community? spike
As Rafal pointed out, nutrition often plays an important role.
See:
In Trenches of a War on Unyielding Poverty
JOHN W. FOUNTAIN
NY Times Sept. 29, 2002
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/national/29POVE.html?pagewanted=print
It isn't a pretty picture. Quite a bit different from Spike searching
for Mersenne Primes sitting in the middle of "classic" American suburbia.
Robert
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