fabio guillermo rojas wrote: Come on, Fab - pointing out examples of brain differences explaining behavioral differences is hardly convincing evidence that brain differences are the right explanation in this case. > > In any case, all of the deficiencies in children's brains you point out > > more or less sound like extensions of their low absolute IQ. > > Not really. One listed deficiency is memory. That might be correlated with > IQ, but it's certainly not the same as IQ. Analogy: a computer with a > small storage capacity might have sophisticated software (analogy with > low memory/high IQ).
Yes, there are cognitive abilities with low g-loading, and memory is one. But now that I think about it, I shouldn't have let you get away with citing memory differences in the first place. Children in fact seem to have much *better* memorization ability than adults in numerous respects. -- Prof. Bryan Caplan Department of Economics George Mason University http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "He wrote a letter, but did not post it because he felt that no one would have understood what he wanted to say, and besides it was not necessary that anyone but himself should understand it." Leo Tolstoy, *The Cossacks*