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Professor Hans Eysenck, who wrote the book, The Inequality of Man, said his research showed that the upper classes were more intelligent than the lower classes and this was the reason for their success. The ruling class loved him and he was esteemed as a world leading psychologist and scientist, but it turns out he was rather stupid, for he refused to believe that environment played any role whatsoever in the development of inteligence. He just made an assumption that his I.Q tests measured inherited intiligence. But now scientists have isolated the genes for intelligence and found that there is no difference, on average, in I.Q. between the classes. Also, Prof. Reuven Feuerstein's research showed that Hans Eysenck was completely wrong after he developed toys for children with low I.Q.
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Professor Hans Eysenck, who wrote the book, The Inequality of Man, said his research showed that the upper classes were more intelligent than the lower classes and this was the reason for their success. The ruling class loved him and he was esteemed as a world leading psychologist and scientist, but it turns out he was rather stupid, for he refused to believe that environment played any role whatsoever in the development of inteligence. He just made an assumption that his I.Q tests measured inherited intiligence. But now scientists have isolated the genes for intelligence and found that there is no difference, on average, in I.Q. between the classes.Professor Hans Eysenck, who wrote the book, The Inequality of Man, said his research showed that the upper classes were more intelligent than the lower classes and this was the reason for their success. The ruling class loved him and he was esteemed as a world leading psychologist and scientist, but it turns out he was rather stupid, for he refused to believe that environment played any role whatsoever in the development of inteligence. He just made an assumption that his I.Q tests measured inherited intiligence. But now scientists have isolated the genes for intelligence and found that there is no difference, on average, in I.Q. between the classes. Also, Prof. Reuven Feuerstein's research showed that Hans Eysenck was completely wrong after he developed toys for children with low I.Q.
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Also, Prof. Reuven Feuerstein's research showed that Hans Eysenck was completely wrong after he developed toys for children with low I.Q. which got them thinking as they played with them, which developed their brains. Some were even imbeciles who couldn't feed or clothe themselves, but they grew up into normal healthy adults. Sadly, the scientific community at the time ignored the work of Reuven Feuerstein, but praised Hans Eysenck instead.
Hans Eysenck also argued that the differences in I.Q. between the races was due only to genes, not the environment, but now new research shows he was wrong on this too.
When studying healthy babies from around the world - who were getting nutritious food and good mothering - scientists found no difference, on average, in their emotional and intellectual development (I.Q).
Yet there is something remarkable about Isaac. His early progress through life has helped to set the standard for other children across the world. Isaac is one of more than 1,300 children in five countries – Brazil, India, Italy, Kenya and the UK – whose growth and neurodevelopment has been tracked and compared from the earliest days in the womb until the age of two.
Led by a team at the University of Oxford, the INTERGROWTH-21st Project is set to have a profound impact on the way we view, feed and educate our children. It has shown for the first time that children are born physically and intellectually equal, regardless of their race or ethnicity. Given good living conditions, good food and education, babies thrive, wherever they live and whatever the colour of their skin.
There’s still a substantial body of opinion out there in both the scientific and lay communities who genuinely believe that intelligence is predominantly determined by genes and the environment that you’re living in and that your parents and grandparents were living in and their nutritional and health status are not relevant,” says Prof Kennedy. “Well, that’s clearly not the case.”
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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/
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The observer (life) creates the universe, but the universe creates the observer (life); the mind appears to be just as mysterious.
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