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From: markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
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Subject: Re: Intelligence (was: IQ), Categorization (was: Racism)
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Date: 26 Jul 89 20:58:11 GMT
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     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.

     Now does that make things clear?  That is all I care to say on the topic.