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From: denbeste@spdcc.COM (Steven Den Beste)
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Subject: Re: Who is smarter?
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Date: 21 Feb 91 03:59:41 GMT
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In article <1991Feb20.203306.1463@sbcs.sunysb.edu> srwilson@csws13.ic.sunysb.edu (Steve Wilson) writes:
>Recently on the newsgroup, soc.culture.japan, there has been a buzzing
>about an aparent study that was conducted to find out which race is
>physically smarter due to the structure of the nervous system, etc...
>The study aparently said that    Oriental and Jewish people were smater,
>followed by Caucasians...  Is there any basis to this at all... Has
>such a study truly been conducted, and what were the results?...
>I thought these newsgroups might be good places to ask such
>questions...  Please either send mail or post on this group if you
>have any information...  Thank you...

I don't doubt that someone tried a study like this, but the fact is that the
question is not meaningful at this time. What does "smart" mean? The closer you
look, the fuzzier it gets.

IQ tests not withstanding, there is NO precise quantitative way to evaluate
precisely how "smart" any given individual is. "Intelligence" probably involves
15 or 20 different characteristics, each of which may be present to a lesser or
greater degree in any given person. "IQ" tests at best measure about four of
them, nor is it clear that they do even that. (Read "The Mismeasure of Man" by
Stephen Jay Gould for a beautiful critique of IQ tests. Read it anyway - it's a
great book.)

If I have an "A" score of 20 and a "B" score of 15, and
 you have an "A" score of 14 and a "B" score of 21, which of us is smarter?


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