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From: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Turing Test and Subject Bias
Message-ID: <2061@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 89 22:18:23 GMT
References: <5453@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
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From article <5453@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, by jps@cat.cmu.edu (James Salsman):
> In article <2037@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes:
> 
>> IQ runs in my family.
> 
> Please do not interpolate that idea:  if you do, then
> you will be running the risk of
> 
>  .... racism ...  1. The notion that one's own ethnic stock is superior.  2.
>            Discrimination or prejudice based on racism.
> 
> I enjoy working with large collections of on-line texts.
> 
> :James
> ::chgrp
> -- 
> 
> :James P. Salsman (jps@CAT.CMU.EDU)

I don't know what to make of that.  I think it was sent in anger,
because it doesn't make sense.  And it looks like an attempt at a
public insult.  I hope it is not.  Public insult is demeaning to a
professional newsgroup.

I didn't ask for special treatment, nor ask anyone to deny fairness to
anyone else.  I said family, not race.  I made no reference to ethnic
stock.  I expressed no prejudice.  I expressed an observation.  I
admire my father's intelligence, which was not fully reflected in the
job he held because religious prejudice kept him out of a better one. 
I admire my late mother's intelligence.  I enjoy the company of
intelligent, fair-minded people.

Please, somebody help me.  What should I have said instead of what I
did say?  Or is something bugging Mr. Salsman?

Is there perhaps something wrong with the notion that intelligence is a
heritable trait?  Or a skill teachable by parents to children?

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