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From: cam@edai.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.edai   031 667 1011 x2550)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Intelligence (was: IQ), Categorization (was: Racism)
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Date: 31 Jul 89 14:23:56 GMT
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In article <3558@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (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.

My knowledge is obviously out of date: I thought that this was still an
unsettled research question. Can you supply references?

>To assert that IQ is genetic is dangerously wrong for precisely
>that reason, that it denies us our human endowment.

What human endowment? Where did this endowment come from? And how do we
know what it is with such certainty that it can be used to rubbish
hypotheses without further argument?
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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.edai   031 667 1011 x2550
Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University
5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh, EH1 2QL, UK