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From: jwi@lzfme.att.com (J.WINER)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Intelligence (was: IQ), Categorization (was: Racism)
Summary: IQ is not intelligence
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Date: 31 Jul 89 13:54:05 GMT
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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.  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.

To assert that IQ is actually related to practical intelligence or
to the ability to think is dangerously wrong because it contradicts
reality.

On the other hand what the IQ tests measure probably is genetic to a
large extent -- but since it has no relation to the ability to
think, so what?

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

I certainly hope so.

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

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