Kudzu_Bob

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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
All your answers are here: http://heartiste.wordpress.com/
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
No, I don't want to address a question posed in bad faith.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Simply Google "gould" and "fraud" and you will have hours of fascinating reading.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
It's the thing that blank slatists say can be improved by a better environment when they're not busy claiming that it can't be measured.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Gould has been exposed as a fraud.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
The average IQ produced by natural selection depends on the environment. There is no ideal level of intelligence apart from environment. If the Earth had a uniform climate, terrain, and so on from pole to pole, this presumably would not be
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Human personality contains any number of traits that can be measured. To pretend that pyschometrics does not exist is the equivalent of refusing to look through Galileo's telescope.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
When you say that some of the best hacker and hustlers that you know come from unimpressive backgrounds, does "some" mean "most" or "a few" or "hardly any"?
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
If a wolf is raised by humans, how much will that improve its IQ score?
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
A 100 to 115 IQ maxed out on potential will get you very far in life, but not as far as a 130 to 145 IQ maxed out on potential will.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
We do have concrete ways to measure intelligence, and have had them for over a hundred years. The literature on this subject is quite extensive.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
You should write that up and submit it to Slate. I'm sure that they would publish it.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
I guess poor children hear fewer words because they don't watch much television.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
And what those not-so-wealthy people need is money for drugs.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Sexbots.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Memory places things in context. We don't even know what we know unless we can remember it.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
All your answers reside here: http://heartiste.wordpress.com/
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Vidal was the last American. When he died, so did the final traces of the Old Republic.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
There's a reason Gore Vidal used to call this country the United States of Amnesia.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
But doing evil that good may come of it is so much more emotionally satisfying, wouldn't you agree?
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
In my opinion a more important effect of this is that the lower class children do not become role models for the other children.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
You seem to labor under the misapprehension that this country should be run for the benefit of the people who already live here as well as their posterity. That's just crazy, as all enlightened thinkers know.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Declaring patent trolls to be terrorists and sending them to Gitmo or someplace like that to be tortured until they confess to whatever we want them to confess to would also work, I suppose. It surprises me the reporter didn't mention
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
I'm confused. If you're saying that Finns do well in school even though nobody forces them to, then they would seem to fit the definition of excellent students to a tee.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Could the secret to Finland's excellent schools be...Finland's excellent students?
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
I think that that city is too busy trying to keep the white suburbs from seceding, a move that would deprive Atlanta of its tax base, to have time to talk to the likes of me.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
I believe that you mean "white flight," not "white plight," but a good catch on your part nonetheless.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
Your first statement is an attempt to demonstrate moral superiority and therefore merits no response. Your second statement is misleading, in that it sweeps under the rug how Detroit's descent into poverty mirrored its changing demogra
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
In other words, one cannot really explain why the Western Roman Empire fell if he cannot account also for how the Eastern Roman Empire managed to last another thousand years.
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by Kudzu_Bob 13y ago
But I am still left wondering why Pittsburghers not only made different choices than did Detroiters, but made ones that were so vastly superior as to lead to their city's becoming the best town in America even as Detroit transformed it

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