03-23-2018, 06:37 PM
(03-23-2018, 04:39 PM)Dill Wrote: LOL B-zona gets us back on track.
As far as difference in intellect--there is still the matter of how we measure it. It is hard to imagine doing that in some culture/free way, just as it is hard to imagine a wholly neutral social classification of race. (The Bell Jar debate is illuminating regarding this.) It is sort of like defining what athletic ability is based upon a finite set of sports--gymnastics and wrestling, or basketball and ping pong, or curling, and distance running? I think I.Q. can be a useful measurement to predict certain types of job performance in advanced industrial societies. But I really hesitate to jump from that to general pronouncements about which human groups are "smarter" than others in some evolutionary/universal sense.
That is precisely why I added that identifier, "to some degree". Glad you caught that. We have yet to create an intelligence test without some form of cultural bias (and probably never will).