Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!markh From: markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Intelligence (was: IQ), Categorization (was: Racism) Message-ID: <3801@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> Date: 12 Aug 89 04:53:05 GMT References: <3549@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <4431@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <3558@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <1522@lzfme.att.com> Reply-To: markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lines: 15 Mark William Hopkins writes: * * There is nothing that IQ tests measure that is built into the architecture * of our brain in such a way as to remain static throughout our lives. It is all * learnable and teachable. That degree of abstraction in our knowledge and in * our ability to learn *is* what characterizes human intelligence. * To assert that IQ is genetic is dangerously wrong for precisely that * reason, that it denies us our human endowment. In article <1522@lzfme.att.com> jwi@lzfme.att.com (J.WINER) writes: * To assert that IQ is actually related to practical intelligence or * to the ability to think is dangerously wrong because it contradicts * reality. This is exactly what the quoted text implies.