Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!zodiac!mcconnel From: mcconnel@zodiac.ADS.COM (Chris McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: IQ is not static, genetic differences inconsequential. Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 89 23:58:00 GMT References: <3549@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <4431@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <3558@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <504@dcdwest.UUCP> <3612@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> Sender: news@zodiac.ADS.COM Organization: Advanced Decision Systems Lines: 9 In-reply-to: markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu's message of 30 Jul 89 02:13:24 GMT If you are really interested in this whole question, read the book "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephen Jay Gould. It is a very interesting history and critical examination of the whole question of ranking races/sexes by some linear measure. If you are really in a hurry, just read the conclusion. The studies that you refer to about twins are well known as being bogus. (The guy who did them falsified his results.) The whole idea of IQ as a means of ranking race/sexes is totally bogus since the variation between individuals completely blows away the differences between races.