RE: [escepticos] Intelligence seen in decline within 100 years

["Daneel Olivaw" <daneel@...>]

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Fecha: sábado 28 de marzo de 1998 7:02
Asunto: [escepticos] Intelligence seen in decline within 100 years


Hola, hola.

Para que sepais lo que se dice por ahi (yo ni entro ni salgo):

Intelligence seen in decline within 100 years
            By Patricia Reaney
            BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) - Intelligence has increased
worldwide for decades but differences in population growth could
reverse the trend within the next 100 years, a British psychologist
said Friday.

Otro partidario de "the bell curve". Es un argumento claramente
político, como siempre: esterilicemos a los pobres y a los emigrantes.
Ni caso, salvo para combatirlos. Hace tiempo que se sabe que el
componente genético de la inteligencia no se puede medir mediante
test.

Parece que estos intentos reapareceran indefinidamente cada vez que
haya problemas como la emigración y el paro. Y además esta
dificultando los estudios serios.

Como ejemplo de la guerra que está dando "the bell curve" (y ya son 4
años), este abstract es de un genetista de la conducta que ya en 1981
afirmó que las diferencias raciales en la inteligencia son imposibles
de medir y que cualquier intento es inutil:

Genetica 1997;99(2-3):207-224
Some history of heredity-vs-environment, genetic inferiority at
Harvard (?),
and The (incredible) Bell Curve.
Hirsch J
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign 61820,
USA.
This article discusses some historical and intellectual roots of
American
behaviorism in psychology and its anti-heredity, environmentalist
bias, as well as the early 'justification' for pure line theory in
genetics and some
interrelations between the two fields. Next, I discuss the
heritability
concept, its promotion, its critique and the importance of
distinguishing it
from, rather than confusing or conflating it with, the heredity
concept. Then, briefly I consider some of the history and problems
associated with the intelligence concept, as well as the capital
importance of biological controls in studies of human heredity. And
finally, I document the incredibility of the The Bell Curve and the
appalling inadequacy of its reception.
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Saludos.

Daneel.