Re: What IQ doesn't tell you about race

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Of course environment is important for people's development.  That is 
what civil rights groups and liberal and progressive groups have been 
saying through their support of NCLB -- children will do better in 
better schools.  Business groups such as BR are in that camp as well.  
Tell me again how it's all a big plot to privatize schools and pay the 
private school freight charges of the offspring of CEOs.

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: Monty Neill <monty@fairtest.org>
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Sent: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:17 am
Subject: [arn-l] What IQ doesn't tell you about race
This is indeed an interesting read in the New Yorker - here is the PEN 
newsblast
summary and a link:

WHAT I.Q. DOESN'T TELL YOU ABOUT RACE
According to Malcolm Gladwell, I.Q. is not fixed as some scientists and
policymakers believe (generally called "I.Q. fundamentalists"). To the 
I.Q.
fundamentalist, two issues are beyond dispute: first, that I.Q. tests 
measure
some hard and identifiable trait that predicts the quality of one's 
thinking;
and, second, that this trait is stable -- it is determined by genes and
consequently largely unaffected by environmental/external influences. 
However, a
growing body of evidence indicates that I.Q. is not just the 
measurement of the
quality of a person's intellect but also of the world that person 
inhabits.
Gladwell writes in The New Yorker that James Flynn, in 1984, found that 
"I.Q.s
around the world appeared to be rising by.three points per decade." 
Flynn's
discovery suggests that, if I.Q. fundamentalists are correct, the 
typical teen
of today with an I.Q. of 100 would h ave grandparents with average 
I.Q.s of 82,
putting the average I.Q.s of 1900 schoolchildren at around 70 (meaning 
the
United States was at one time largely populated by people who today 
would be
considered developmentally challenged). This indicates to Gladwell that
measuring I.Q. includes not only a person's mind but also the quality 
of that
person's environment.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/12/17/071217crbo_books_gladwell


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