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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (38274)	9/23/2010 4:43:45 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

A PSYCHOLOGIST and a right-wing POLITICAL SCIENTIST.... (Even back in 1994 those two knew little about genetics, and worlds more is known in the field of genetics today... Why, back then most of the human genome was still uncharted.) I believe they were correct insofar as two broad assertions though: At the individual level, intelligence ('IQ' obviously being an imperfect measure though) is a pretty good predictor for future success in life. And, "environment" (social development, nutrition, education, absence of adverse medical impacts such as damaging pollution, etc.) is a prime factor at both the individual and aggregate levels for success and development. (Have some doubts though --- as does much of modern science, regardless of the field --- about a "bell curve" necessarily being the best representation for many real-life datas.... As lamentable modern occurrences have show us, there is such a thing as "fat tailed risks", basically outliers in the data in larger statistical proportions then can easily be fitted within a standard short-tailed bell curve.)