Monday, August 06, 2007

Now discuss this...

Dr Murray will address a Centre for Independent Studies ideas forum, In Praise of Elitism, next Monday. (Dr Murray is co-author of The Bell Curve)

The 64-year-old has made his name with explosive, politically incorrect arguments that women lack the evolutionary genetic intelligence to master the highest levels of mathematics and the hard sciences, that Jews are born smart and that welfare needs to be abolished because it encourages women with low intelligence to sprout children who are in turn not likely to be very bright.

I'd be interested to hear what Dr Murray thinks of the intelligence of the rest of the Middle Eastern population, that is, those who aren't Jewish.



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3 comments:

Michael said...

Hammer said what I was going to say.

And let's not forget the malnutrition in Gaza, or the refusal to use vaccines in muslim parts of Nigeria.

Islam just does not promote a very good environment for smart people, does it?

3:33 am
Lexcen said...

hammer, michael, there is no doubt that religion stifles intellectual curiosity and development of the inquiring mind.
There are also examples of successful people who have been born in poverty.
I don't think intelligence is inherited because one genius doesn't come from a family of geniuses or give birth to many other geniuses.

6:45 am
Michael said...

There are also examples of successful people who have been born in poverty.

That is true; but I don't agree that religion stifles thought. Jews are among the most disproportionately represented peolpe on earth among Nobel laureates, University faculty, authors, etc.
And Hindu Indians haven't done badly, either.
I think some religions (Islam especially) actively work against intellectual development, however.

11:52 pm

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