tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post3287179374776352106..comments2024-03-11T13:47:03.621-05:00Comments on Physics and Physicists: Nobel Laureate's Gift Creates OutcryZapperZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15861398273820851809noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-90406584852170990632009-08-31T19:16:18.901-05:002009-08-31T19:16:18.901-05:00I disagree.
If you claim you want to study ghosts...I disagree.<br /><br />If you claim you want to study ghosts, you don't go out right away and want to study how ghosts can scare people. Rather you first established the existence of ghosts. After all, without that existence, the rest is MOOT!<br /><br />Claiming that some race is smarter than another WITHOUT first establishing how one actually determine THAT, to me, is totally irrational. You are putting the cart before the horse. I might as well claim that causasians are more protufumoble than asians and african-amerians before establishing what "protufomoble" is and how I measure it.<br /><br />Zz.ZapperZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15861398273820851809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-1286714839866954342009-08-31T18:59:34.576-05:002009-08-31T18:59:34.576-05:00No, it's not unthinkable. It's not an issu...No, it's not unthinkable. It's not an issue of having, in-hand, a definitive way to gauge intelligence. I didn't say that anyone knows how to measure it intrinsically. <br /><br />I did say that it ought not be taboo to ask the question, or to think that one has figured out the answer by some line of reasoning. Answers come and go as wisdom and insight make progress. I certainly don't consider it racist if someone thinks, for instance, that Asians are smarter than Caucasians. That assertion may be demonstrably either wrong or uncertain; but that's not the same as it being a racist (chauvinist) way of seeing things, any more than it's inappropriate to say that if one is born without fingers, then a career as a pianist is problematic, at best. There are haves and there are have-nots; it's not generally about race per se.Pi-Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882386164733498054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-20584742158271955192009-08-31T18:15:43.262-05:002009-08-31T18:15:43.262-05:00Actually, it IS unthinkable.
We talk about "...Actually, it IS unthinkable.<br /><br />We talk about "intelligence" as if this can be measured. I've seen some so-called smart people at work (and I work with physicists), and they can be some of the dumbest walking neanderthals you'll ever meet!<br /><br />IQ test? I don't think so. All I need to say is for someone to look at the history of IQ tests and see how it came into existence.<br /><br />So then it comes down to the question on how one actually measures intelligence to determine who is intelligent and who isn't. And that is a whole can of worms in itself!<br /><br />So to then turn around and use what is already a vague test and make SUCH A DEFINITIVE statement using such a weak foundation is something that is totally irrational.<br /><br />Zz.ZapperZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15861398273820851809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-15868203875371191812009-08-31T14:26:43.895-05:002009-08-31T14:26:43.895-05:00It's not unthinkable that there's a geneti...It's not unthinkable that there's a genetic contribution to intelligence. It's even obvious that intelligence is very much a function of genes: consider the difference between humans & dogs. One does differential calculus, the other doesn't, isn't very likely to, and this difference is genetic. It's not implausible that there's a difference in intelligence between so-called races as whole, statistical groups. The question is only if that difference happens to exist. <br /><br />I don't know if it does exist, but I'm certainly not willing to make it politically unacceptable to ask the question; and I'm not willing to berate anyone for thinking that they've found an answer to that question. If the difference exists, I'd much rather know about it, and I'd rather know what the reason is for it. Pretending that social problems don't exist is not a good way to solve them.Pi-Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882386164733498054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34480619.post-47538297424512560852009-08-30T22:57:41.607-05:002009-08-30T22:57:41.607-05:00The major causes the low intelligence are poor nut...The major causes the low intelligence are poor nutrition of children, neglect, poor prenatal care, poor nutrition of the mother, drugs, alcohol, smoking during pregnancy, and child abuse.Einstein's Brainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075051682165324758noreply@blogger.com