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To: jttmab who wrote (172057)	10/6/2005 6:28:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Putting myself out on a limb, I think that Maurice might say...it was immediately after 1973 that all cultural bias was removed from IQ tests.> In 1863 there were also some odd ideas about intelligence. But even more odd were the ideas that were held by more than 7 people in the 10th century BC in regard to other groups. In fact, I dare say you could today find somebody doing screwball scientific investigations, and indeed I see them every day, drawing ridiculous conclusions from flaky investigations. So your conclusion is wrong and you are out on a limb, barking up the wrong tree. Which is not in the slightest surprising. One of the ridiculous ideas people have concluded these days, and to which most people subscribe, [or hypocritically say they do], is the blank slate idea of people that we are all the same when born and it's all just bias, false measurement, nutrition and opportunity etc that makes us different. All groups are identical. Males and females are the same. Individuals are all the same too. Nobody has an intrinsic advantage. Talk about ridiculous and nutball conclusions, but highly popular for all that.* I note the continuing avoidance of the essential question. One of them anyway. I note nobody has come up with anything instead of my puberty theory. Which doesn't surprise me, or they might find there's an answer to conflict with their mindless, cliche-ridden, dogma-accepting, hide-in-the-flock ideology. Accepting conventional dogma is usually safest, whether it's slavery, religion, or other ideology, such as women and men are the same. Look at the hassle the Harvard bloke got for stating obvious truth. The mindless mob was baying and drooling. Same here in SI. Mqurice * I realize you hold two opposing views simultaneously = we are not all the same, but we are; women and men are the same, despite women maturing years younger than males, and despite child development formative years being crucial to the finished product, irretrievably.