US Prez Election 2012 Thread - Social Darwinism derail

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Re: US Prez Election 2012 Thread - Social Darwinism derail

Post by Tyrannical » Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:05 am

mistermack wrote:An interesting thing about intelligence is that brain size doesn't have much to do with it.
It's the internal setup of the brain that counts, and that is phenomenally complicated.

The brain of Ivan Turgenev, the Russian novelist, was weighed at 2021 gm.
The brain of Anatole France was weighed at only 1017 gm after his death.
Turgenev was a noted novelist, France was a Nobel Prize winning writer, one of the most important in French literature.

Whether they had similar IQs is irrelevant.
You can test for both by correlating sibling brain sizes with intelligence.
Related family members on average would have similar brain wiring, so then you compare intelligence to brain size. I know one of those "racist" scientists I follow did do such a study.
A rational skeptic should be able to discuss and debate anything, no matter how much they may personally disagree with that point of view. Discussing a subject is not agreeing with it, but understanding it.

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Re: US Prez Election 2012 Thread - Social Darwinism derail

Post by amused » Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:57 am

Tyrannical wrote:... I know one of those racist scientists I follow did do such a "study".
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