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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15570)1/5/2002 1:30:40 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Hi Maurice Winn; Re: "Nutrition has been pathetic for centuries. It's still bad. Sure, the major deficiency diseases such as goitre, rickets, pellagra, scurvy and the like aren't seen much, but subclinical deficiencies are rampant. Doctors now recommend folic acid for pregnant women, vitamin A and other supplements. Brains can't grow without construction materials."

You got that right. The human genome is designed to survive, no thrive, under brutally horrible nutritional, health and shelter conditions. Well fed humans, just like well fed animals of other sorts, are more effective, and undoubtedly smarter. Maybe too smart.

As the whole world has become healthier, average IQs have been increasing as well. Now the healthiest populations have the highest IQs, hardly a big surprise.

[A tie-in to Foreign Affairs isn't obvious: Racism isn't a very realistic assumption. Over the long run the US will lose its intellectual advantages.]

-- Carl



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (15570)1/5/2002 4:50:24 AM
From: maceng2  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
It's funny that people want there to be no difference between group averages

Maurice, no problem, I am just interested in the real data. I like the differences in our cultural environment. There is few people who would talk about this in an open way, so thankyou on that point.

Yes, I agree intelligence is multifaceted. I know that, I have trained loads of people both in the USA and UK. I get um to learn too, all of um -g-


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