Re: IQ and heredity

Alan Meyer wrote:
"DK" <dk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
"Alan Meyer" <ameyer2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I believe that the recent thread concerning James Watson's
remarks about race and IQ needs to be looked at from an entirely
different point of view.

The great majority of people consider IQ to be a hereditary
characteristic of people.
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But what if that's not so? What if _any_ kind of intelligent
behavior requires the acquisition of reasoning skills - skills
which some populations and cultures are very deficient in?

I think that, in fact, intelligent behavior requires such
acquired reasoning skills.
Of course! BUT:

I believe that no one, not single person ever claimed that
IQ is *entirely* hereditary. All the data make it perfectly clear
that IQ does depend on environment.

Unfortunately, huge numbers of people do believe exactly that.

Do we have access to stats on the issue?

It is not a POV I have ever heard of.
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