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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3286)	1/13/2006 1:57:12 AM
From: Crabbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219786

</>"It's not that early maturation limits intelligence, which it doesn't seem to do, it limits experiences and early learning/brain training which enables subsequent talents to shine." I find that statement to be beneath you. First of all knowledge, experience, and IQ (Intelligence) are three entirely different things. Perhaps wisdom might be a combination of the three, or a separate and equal forth. Intelligence is not a learned thing. It is an innate property describing the ability to solve problems. Knowledge is what you have learned. Experience is what you have done and learned from doing. Early maturation has one huge limiting factor, it limits curiosity. Few remain curious into old age. The higher the IQ, possibly, the longer curiosity remains. Even one with my great intellect (lol) finds it harder and harder to get curious about the wide range of things that used to interest me. I must finally be growing up instead of just old. Maturation does not limit experience, death does, perhaps maturation may limit learning from experience. "people can't learn the sounds of other languages if they have got their wisdom teeth. They need to learn them under age 2 to really have them locked in solid. " Actually people at birth are proven through brainwave studies to recognize every phonetic sound from every language in the world, at least it stimulates interest and action in the speech and language controlling areas of the brain. However, if they never hear a particular sound before age 6 months they lose the ability to ever hear or say it or recognize it as speech. The most commonly known example would be Japanese inability to differentiate between L and R. They just do not hear any difference. A simialr phenomena would be covering an new born kittens eyes for the first 24-48 hours after the eyes open, leaves them forever blind. In humans the developmental period is extended to 6 months for speech, 6-9 years for most parts of sight (amblyopia - Lazy eye). "people can't become the world's best golfer if they've never handled a ball or bat, let alone a golf ball and club, until they have wisdom teeth."<i\> The way the brain learns motor tasks is to build over extensive practice new structures (connections) in the motor control regions of the brain. As we age the ability to modify the brain is reduced but not totally eliminated. The prime example of this would be Tiger Woods who at two was effectively driving golf balls and putting. In adulthood he was/is the worlds best. My math skills were my best attribute, and I can remember putting pebbles and twigs into piles and counting them, such as 4 piles of 4 and counting to 16 and deducing that 4 times 4 was 16. By five I had deduced that it was easier to multiply 9 x 10 and subtract 9 than it was to multiply 9 x 9. Early introduction to math in this manner had me factoring quadratics in my head in the 7th grade. "Females learn languages, such as mathematics, too late to get really fluent in them. Females are deprived of the right education in the one size fits all system, with boys and girls bundled into the same classes, irrespective of maturity, skills etc. But I've been over this before here, so won't rehash it all." You may have been over it before but you are wrong, and I havd not been over it before so I will comment. Intelligence (IQ) is not singular thing. Psychologists recognize at least 7 intelligences. Mathematics is one, Spatial relationships another, social skills another, language yet another, at the moment I don't remember all seven. These 7 intelligences seem to correlate moderately in most people if you are high in one you are probably high in all. But there are variances in each one to another. There are also sexual differences. Men excell at mathematics and spatial relations, women at language and social skills. Women it would seem gain spacial relations skills after pregnancy due to birth hormones such as cortisol and oxitocin as well as others. Social relations also change. Oxytocin is the hormone of love and creates bonding. It is also the active ingredient in love at first sight levels remain higher for about 1 year in romance in both the male and the female (small sidebar). (SA Jan 2006 page 72). oxytocin.org Vocabulary is learned knowledge, ability to learn vocabulary is an innate skill. Ability to use vocabulary an intelligence. As women are much more social and much more expressive they have a basic need for better language skills. Recognizing land marks is a learned knowledge. Ability to remember Landmarks an innate skill. Ability to relate landmarks is an intelligence. As men were hunters and strayed far from the cave, spatial relation skills were required to find ones way home. Women are not necessesarily of lower intelligence, they are just intelligent in different ways than men. Viva la difference. r