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From: jwi@lzfme.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Intelligence (was: IQ), Categorization (was: Racism)
Summary: Indictment
Message-ID: <1508@lzfme.att.com>
Date: 25 Jul 89 13:50:32 GMT
Organization: AT&T, Lincroft NJ
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| martin.b.brilliant writes:
|
| * IQ runs in my family.


| James Salsman replys:
|
| * 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.


| Mark William Hopkins adds:
| 
| And as for intelligence: the intelligence I have over and beyond what is
| considered normal is SOLELY the result of my conscious efforts and I resent
| anyone who tries to trivialize the considerable extent of my accomplishment
| by saying I had nothing consciously to do with it, even the predisposition
| toward it. ...
| 
| "Superior" intelligence is solely the product of individual effort, using
| techniques which everyone else (who has fluency in at least one human language)
| can follow.

Oh, goody! A bunch of idiots are going to fight to prove my
contention that the human race is not intelligent.

Jim Winer ..!lzfme!jwi (Usually unable to reply to email outside AT&T)

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Upuaut:	a wolf-headed Egyptian deity | Voodoo: the art of sticking ideas
	assigned as Guidance System  |         into people and watching
	for the Barque of Ra.        |         them bleed.

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