XPost: alt.psychology, alt.politics.british, us.politics   
   XPost: uk.politics.misc   
   From: mlwi@swipnet.se   
      
   "Andy Wainwright"  skrev i   
   meddelandet news:k7m9kk$kul$1@dont-email.me...   
   > Let's remember here that kids from poorer and less educated   
   > backgrounds generally will not perform well in an academic   
   > environment, however intellectually capable they might be.   
   >   
   > Middle class kids of professional parents will grow up surrounded by   
   > books and an atmosphere of learning within the household. For   
   > instance, the more educated parents are going to be able to help their   
   > children with their homework and so forth.   
   >   
   > Genetics alone in general have little effect on academic performance   
   > in comparsion to culture and class.   
   >   
   > Factor out social class and culture- it should be remembered that some   
   > cultures certainly do put a greater emphasis on education than others-   
   > and academic achievement becomes purely based on the individual   
   > concerned. Demographics are only of use as part of a strategy to find   
   > the reasons for successes and failures of various social groups.   
   >   
   > Black and Latino genetically as opposed to culturally mean nothing   
   > significant at all, that all depends on the exact tribal linages   
   > involved.   
   >   
   > Here in England, 100 years ago the same prats were saying the same   
   > about the Irish. It seems some people just seem to want to have to be   
   > above the smiths and below the joneses. Monkey dominance traits   
   > carried over into human societies the world over.   
      
   After 10,000 years or so of an unpriviliged position in the human family   
   one would expect them to have broken out of their inherited condition of   
   poverty plus bad intellectual achievement. Poverty isn't a good enough   
   explanation. In a class society, where the lower classes cannot pursue a   
   career, the intellectual aptness in the individual can be subjugated in   
   many generations.  But neither today nor prior to the class society,   
   poverty cannot be such a powerful factor that it keeps people   
   intellectually inferior, generation after generation. I don't believe in   
   it as a general explanatory model. The opposite explanation is probably   
   better, that poverty partly depends on a low average IQ.   
      
   M. Winther   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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