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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
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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.