"Andrew Russell" <this.mail at goes.nowhere.org> wrote in message
news:3d2b2dc3.5357366 at news.btinternet.com...
> "Peter Douglas Zohrab" <zohrab at xtra.co.nz> painstakingly noted:
>>> >Maybe so, but that is not relevant to the present discussion. If you are
> >saying that Einstein's brain was the anomalous (please note the spelling
of
> >this word) subject, that is inappropriate to this discussion, since his
> >brain was presumably not part of the sample on the basis of which the
> >generalisation was made that female brains are smaller than male brains.
>> J P Rushton (The National Review, September 15, 1997) pointed out that
> any debate over the relation between brain size and intelligence was
> over.
>> Subsequently, of course, discoveries using Magnetic Resonance
> Imaging (MRI), which creates a three-dimensional image of the
> living brain, have shown a strong positive correlation (0.44)
> between brain size and intelligence. And there is more. The
> National Collaborative Perinatal Study, as reported by Sarah
> Broman and her colleagues, showed that head perimeter measured
> at birth significantly predicts head perim-eter at 7 years --
> and head perimeter at both ages predicts IQ. Recent studies
> also show that head size and IQ vary with social class.
>>> It is, of course, relationships between brain size/IQ and sex
> and race which, understandably, arouse the most anxiety. Some
> critics have even suggested a social taboo on discussion and
> research in these fields. That would run counter to the entire
> tradition of scientific inquiry.
>>> You appear to have come up against the "social taboo" he mentions.
> This is the type of research that Gloria Steinem and Jesse Jackson
> want prohibited.
What's truly amazing in this Constitutional republic is that we've even
permitted communists/feminists like Gloria Steinem and Jese Jackson to not
just direct such research, but to tell us what we can and can't discuss in
public forums and universities.
THAT is hard to understand. The last thing we need is dedictated communists
like them flagrantly banning free speech. And of course the real reason they
even try is because they already know (or at least sense) what the TRUTH is,
don't they?
John Knight
