I wonder why you keep posting articles that discuss environment factors in the development of measured intelligence, and then talk about heredity. It seems to be something of an obsession.
“I wonder why you keep posting articles that discuss environment factors in the development of measured intelligence, and then talk about heredity. It seems to be something of an obsession.”
Because the elites *assume* that environmental factors explain differences in intelligence and want to spend vast amounts of tax money in a quixotic effort to equalize all groups. That’s what Obama’s universal preschool is about, for example.
I wonder why you are posting on this thread, since you apparently have a personality conflict with the freeper who posted this article.
Back on topic. It turns out that both environment and heredity affect intelligence. Best data that I have seen (The Bell Curve) places the impact of each at about 50-50.
The only sort of "poor" family that I know has a monstrous huge TV running all the time. I mean HUGE, like maybe 60" across? I bet the kids in that family are dulled to images projected on a screen because they have to be to get a thought in edgewise. By way of contrast, I was drug up on, 60 minutes of TV on a school night and 90 minutes on a non-school night unless something like Shakespeare was on.
This does not explain why I am poor and stupid ...)
But certainly whenever I read an article or a headline like this one, I tend to fulminate a little over the lack of consideration that maybe the "stress" mentioned in this article is a cause or concomitant of poverty, not merely a consequence.
“I wonder why you keep posting articles that discuss environment factors in the development of measured intelligence, and then talk about heredity. It seems to be something of an obsession.”
Stifling discussion and conversation.....I feel sorry for your kids.