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39221 Re: IQ and Ethnicity.
   De, I don't disagree with anything you posted there. However, as... 		Zimbler0   6TH POPE   18 Jan 2023
 4:04 AM
39213 Re: IQ and Ethnicity.
   I am fairly confident my australian cattle dog , whichis a herding dog... 		micro   6TH POPE   18 Jan 2023
 12:14 AM

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Re: IQ and Ethnicity.

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 17 Jan 23 10:37 PM
Msg. 39212 of 60014
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Zimbler0:

Re: “If one little baby has its little brain stimulated at an early age . . . And another little baby is left alone to fend for itself in its crib most of the day . . . Which is more likely to grow up with a higher IQ?”I don't think that's the question. The question is whether two babies with the same amount of "nurture" will grow up to have different levels of intelligence. Of course they will. Nurture and nature both play a role in individual intelligence. For inate I.Q., nurture isn't involved.

So, are different groups of humans different in that regard? Why shouldn't they be? Do you have any doubt that some breeds of dogs are particularly smart while others are kind of on the dumb side? If not, get yourself a cocker spaniel one day. They're cute. Unbelievably hyper. Dumb as posts. There are some breeds that are still worse. Border collies and Australian shepherds, though? Wow. I taught mine to sit in about 5 minutes. Same for lying down. And speaking. And rolling over. Aussies were bred for intelligence.

People aren't bred, though. Actually, yeah, they are It's just not managed. In the case of people, the breeder is the environment. Groups that evolved in a highly variable environment had to make up for it in some way, learning how to prepare for bad times during the good times or dying. Some groups never had to do that - Hawaiians, for instance. It stands to reason that a group that needed to be smart to survive would ultimately evolve to be smarter than one that had little in the way of disease or food issues to contend with.


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