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From: nather@ut-emx.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: Are Americans Intellectually Inferior?
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Date: 17 Jan 89 15:59:32 GMT
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In article <997@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, kolb@handel.colostate.edu. (Denny Kolb) writes:
>    If I remember my history correctly, the
>    original settlers of Aussieland were deported criminals from
>    England.  Do you mean to imply that the average convicted
>    criminal has a higher I.Q. than the average voluntary immigrant?

The deportees were called "criminals" at the time, in accordance with a
social theory that identified a "criminal class" -- and predicted crime would
disappear if this class were sent elsewhere en masse.  Most of the "crimes"
were theft of food or small property -- what we call petite theft today.
Almost all were poor, and had to live by their wits.  Presumably they took
their wits along when they were deported.

I doubt Australians would stack up any better than Americans on an IQ test --
unless they wrote the test ...


-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin