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10-15-06, 08:54 PM #481
You just did.
You agree that training, nutrition, stimulation, etc., are more important than the brain size of the kurzweil/savant child.
That is what I have been saying through this whole thread. Not that brain size has no affect on a creature's abillity to become intelligent. Perhaps one person has to try a little harder, so what? That doesn't mean anything.
AND any person's need to try harder is genetically dependent upon parental heritability, not race.
Kofi Annan's children, given the same mother, might be genetically predisposed to be more intelligent than your children.
That doesn't mean anything if you teach them well.
Perhaps kofi annan was genetically predispositioned to be less intelligent than you, and was simply put in a position where his brain had to be worked with problems you never had to deal with, problems so complex and multi-levelled, they forced his brain to create itself.
Perhaps if you started thinking about the complex, many layered aspects of this issue your brain would adapt too.
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10-15-06, 10:46 PM #482Schwat?
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In that specific case, yes. Those factors are more important. Similarly, if you're a genius and a mob man hits you in the head with a baseball bat, it would likely have adverse effects on your cognitive ability. But those things usually don't happen. Children usually do not languish in dark closets. Jensen estimates the heritability of IQ at about .8. He stresses that .8 is an average. IQ heritability can be higher or lower, depending on environmental factors. Like I said, the Kurzweil/Savant child, who received hardly any nourishment, would have a low IQ heritability, even though he or she may have genes that would under normal conditions result in a genius.You just did.
You agree that training, nutrition, stimulation, etc., are more important than the brain size of the kurzweil/savant child.
Just because IQ is not always highly heritable does not mean brain size is not important, or that smart people tend to have large noggins. Nope.
Again and again, you assume I think brain size is the only important factor. This is wrong and unwarranted. You're imposing your own prejudices and preconceptions on me. Stop it.
I'm only agreeing with scientists who find that smarter people generally have larger brains.
Nice.
Originally Posted by gray cole
Last edited by francois; 10-15-06 at 11:21 PM.
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10-16-06, 11:16 PM #483
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10-17-06, 08:32 AM #484Schwat?
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Oh great. Let's be witness to the wonderful contributions that the "AIDS is a conspiracy" guy promises to make. This will be good.
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06-01-07, 10:10 PM #485Mr_CraftyGuest
lol race has nothing to do with dick size or being smart
Africans immigrants have the highest educational attainment rates of any immigrant group in the United States with higher levels of completion than the stereotyped Asian American model
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06-01-07, 10:23 PM #486
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06-01-07, 10:41 PM #488Registered Senior Member
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look it's not the size it's how you use it
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06-01-07, 10:42 PM #489
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06-01-07, 10:44 PM #492Registered Senior Member
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nah i would have to say if you have a big penis you rely on it to much and you dont tend to please the woman however if you have a small penis you have to componsate if you know what i mean
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06-01-07, 10:46 PM #493
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06-01-07, 10:46 PM #494
african people have a larger penis because african women usualy have a larger vagina.
its as simple as that.
peace.
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06-01-07, 10:47 PM #496Registered Senior Member
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or black men have it as a wepon to fight of the wild animals what ya think could be a good survival wepon in the wild
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06-01-07, 10:48 PM #497
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06-01-07, 10:50 PM #500
Ahh Lonestar...I see your shwartz is a big as mine...now let's see you handle it...
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