Yes, and let's leave our assessments of phrenology and astrology to
those who've spent their lifetimes working within these areas, too.
Steve McKay
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Subject: Re: Hereditability
At 01:11 21/06/07 +0100, Martin Sewell wrote (in part):
>Your (uninformed) opinion on the heritability of intelligence is at
odds
>with that of the experts. I would sooner concur with those who have
spent
>a lifetime working in the area.
That obviously is usually (and probably even in this case) a very
compelling viewpoint.
However, I cannot help but observe that there is an irony in this very
particular case, since the matter of inheritance of intelligence is
probably the area which comes first into people's minds as providing a
historic reason for the need to 'think at least twice' before blindly
putting our faith in someone who has "spent a lifetime working in the
area"!!
Kind Regards,
John
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