From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 18:09:25 MDT
On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Damien Broderick wrote:
[snip]
> If this account is correct, the new genomics and proteomics and homeotics
> will (or could or perhaps should) change the politics of IQ to a marked
> extent. Once we learn what all the salient genes are, how they typically
> and atypically interact, how they are damaged, silenced or optimally
> expressed by environmental triggers, etc, we will suddenly have a full
> ontological understanding rather than an indirect epistemological hunch
> (something readily confounded by stupid culturally contaminated feature
> detectors and generalization rules: `Whites can't click!')
[snip]
I too vote this post of the month.
I made effectively the same comments in my note to a spin-off
of the Bell Curve thread:
See:
http://forum.javien.com/XMLmessage.php?id=id::MSsXDjMf-eF1D-OR0T-QktL-DkQndT59fjg_
I think Damien puts it much better though.
Bottom Line on this entire Bell Curve debate:
Correlation is not Causation!
Until we *really* know what causes intelligence and where those genes are
located the entire discussion is a *stupid* waste of time.
I'll repeat that in case it isn't clear.
Until we *really* know what causes intelligence and where those genes are
located the entire discussion is a *stupid* waste of time.
'nuf said.
Robert
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