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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Who is smarter?
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.045908.7452@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 04:59:08 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.203306.1463@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <44523@ut-emx.uucp>
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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In article <44523@ut-emx.uucp> ethan@ut-emx.uucp (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac) writes:
>
>None of which says much about whether or not intelligence is largely
>determined by genes.  The real problem is not whether or not
>some ethnic groups have more smarts (an unlikely, but just barely
>conceivable proposition) but how to resist the idea that we should
>make social policy based on what are evidently small (at most)
>statistical differences.
>
    Well said, sir!
    People deserve equal rights, not because they're statistically equal,
    but because they're _people_.  That is, let the individuals compete
    on a fair playing-field. Differences among individuals are _much_
    bigger than differences among ethnic groups, and even if they weren't,
    every individual deserves the opportunity to try his or her best.

    <sermon off>
    flames > /dev/null

    Now back to medical science...


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