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@Bilbs: right, that’s it.

@Annatar: [quote: “I have studied this for many years. In the United States, the problem is in large part genetic. IQ is in large part inherited from parents…”]
This has to be one of the filthiest and wrongest arguments I’ve ever read, unfortunately not for the first time. There are so many reasons to disqualify this claim that I will only pick just a few. Also any proof of brains being arranged whatever you think they are does just point to your lack of scientific references. It seems you like to generalize even to people of your own country i.e. “most of the population is about as intelligent as a door nail“. I’ve been quite a few times to the U.S. – East Coast and West Coast, and at some periods I worked on a daily basis with American people. Besides the fact that you’re eating peanut butter and we prefer hazelnut butter mixed with chocolate, I don’t see many differences between us as human beings. We all have a certain small percentage of dull, completely stupid people, a majority of average people, and just a few geniuses. That’s everywhere the same. That said, educating systems are a good way to enhance brain logic and capacities to solve more difficult issues i.e. “science”, “research”, “engineering”…

Here is a fact that some Educating systems are more Government-sponsored while others are privately-sponsored. I mean there that some systems do allow for more equal opportunities to access a better education. If the good schools are too expensive because their full revenues come from students and their parents, there will be no empowerment. Children of poor people will probably remain poor. Where’s genetic in this reasoning? Nowhere. Government policies do influence social conditions, and the laws of economics govern our lives.

Secondly, while evocating scientists, it reminds me that all the serious ones (not those with personal lucrative or political ambitions) say that we (any human being) are made up of 100% innate and 100% acquired characteristics. Apologies for simplifying a little bit the process, as it is longer and less obvious as it seems if you want to get a clearer and more complete picture. Please don’t refrain to do your Google work. So, these scientists are serious to say that there’s no objective criteria to state that our intelligence is inherited from our parents’ genetic capital. The fact that our parents do have books, computers, that they care for our education and are available to answer our questions, that they have received a good education by themselves, that other people around us also positively challenge our brains, etc. are far more objective criteria when it comes to enhancing our capacities.

Plus, limiting intelligence to one and only one thing is pointless. According to several representation models there are 16 basic types of intelligence. More complicated representation systems give up to 65536 possible combinations. To this, add the fact that we change over life, and are subject to both internal and external/environmental stimulations.

Lastly, any such reasoning that would be based solely on genetics would not only be wrong, but would doom us for the future. Why competing if everything is decided in advance? Why bothering to do any efforts? Let’s just wait for our death and hope for reincarnation in someone or something with better genetics. Laughs. Coughs. Let’s get some sleep now!

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