[happygrl]

the Pirahã simply may not recognize when one quantity of items exactly equals another

What, they can't see ?

I am convinced that intelligence is malleable, that if I.Q. tests were given these people would be low I.Q.

But if their children were raised in high culture homes in developed countries, their I.Q.s would rise.

Brain stimulation.

[Thinkin' Gal]

A study of an Amazonian tribe is stoking fierce debate about whether people can count without numbers.

Send in the bureaucrats. That'll teach 'em.