To: arun gera who wrote (75325 ) 6/17/2011 5:27:44 AM From: Maurice Winn 1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) | Respond to It's a matter of measurement Arun. There are intelligence researchers who measure these things. < how are you so confident about the distribution of the "intelligence" genotype among one population versus the others when many gaps, even if measurable, can be explained by culture, aspirations, opportunity, and history? >Then came along Vishawanath Anand, a child prodigy, blessed with good DNA. Now there are 18 grandmasters. So has the gene pool in India altered so much in the last generation? > Just as it was easy to predict that there were hordes of underemployed supersonic people in China though it was not evident in the midst and postscript of Mao's maelstrom. Strangely, Indians in general when in India are very careless about spellings - ask anybody who has outsourced any work to India > Indian english is pedantic, and somewhat archaic [from about the 1950s] with formal form and staid style. Just as the Indian movies don't go for violent surrealism and gynaecological examination as seen in the lowest common denominator world of anything goes, english is still a rational linquistic tradition. <So are we seeing a huge DNA mutation in some Indian origin kids in USA who are suddenly becoming spelling bee champions? I guess those genes were dormant for many generations and suddenly become alive > > No. If you examine their parents and grand parents, you'll find comparable talents - not necessarily achievements but the raw material of such intelligence. As I mentioned, when busy picking rice to survive, it's hard to demonstrate talent for spelling bees. All that can be done is pass on the genes and hope for the opportunity some time. Similarly, you wouldn't find many theories of relativity being produced in Dachau concentration camp, but the talent was there.
