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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (15477)	1/3/2002 10:03:12 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 281500

Dennis. I can't help it. ROTFLMAO SNIP Gould's answer is clear and simple: power maintains itself. European men of the 19th century, even before Darwin, saw themselves as the pinnacle of creation and sought to prove this assertion through hard measurement. When one measure was found to place members of some "inferior" group such as women or Southeast Asians over the supposedly rightful champions, it would be discarded and replaced with a new, more comfortable measure. The 20th-century obsession with numbers led to the institutionalization of IQ testing and subsequent assignment to work (and rewards) commensurate with the score, shown by Gould to be not simply misguided--for surely intelligence is multifactorial--but also regressive, creating a feedback loop rewarding the rich and powerful. The revised edition includes a scathing critique of Herrnstein and Murray's The Bell Curve, taking them to task for rehashing old arguments to exploit a new political wave of uncaring and belt tightening. It might not make you any smarter, but The Mismeasure of Man will certainly make you think. UNSNIP going back to a previous subject... That dumb black boy OJ sure did some amazing tricks. -g- Like managed to dispose of whole loads of real incriminating evidence but also leave some real incriminating evidence. Of course the LAPD was sure there was no loony in the woods going around killing people... they already knew the good folk of Brentwood were safe. They knew everything. and they still do... just someone honest has to tell the truth. Some have but it's just "evidence". Here is a little entertainment thoughts. policenet.com yeah sure, OJ is guilty ..."beyond reasonable doubt" -lol- <g/nfg> I saw the whole trial btw, was working nightshift at the time. You can only fool honest folk some of the time. OJ may be guilty (remotely possible) but there is some other things that need immediate fixing (imho)