Please demonstrate that purple flowers are not caused by global warming. This is the sort of question you are asking. I personally don't find it interesting, or useful. I can't understand why someone who has met a lot of people of all races would look for a correlation between skin color and intelligence, and can only conclude that you have not.
I don't have any particular desire to point out racism but ya, I do see it here. I certainly don't feel comfortable reading this list at work any more given your recent topic choices. On 10/31/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dana wrote: > > ok... sorry, but the best explanation I have for this thread is that > > you have eaten some ugly pills. You want to believe that race > > correlates with intelligence, go ahead. I am outta here. > > > > I think you're mixing up my interesting discussion on the possibility > of correlated genetic traits with your desire to point out bigotry in > society. > > This whole goofiness started because I asked why Dr. Watson was > immediately assumed to be a bigot simply because he said he saw data > that indicated Africans (not black people, in fact he didn't mention > skin color at all) were not as intelligent as Europeans. > > I was pointing out that it's *possible*. And it is. And not a single > person here has said why it isn't. Hell, could be due to > malnutrition, chemical plants, mining runoff who the hell knows. > > Hinkley, CA residents might also be "less intelligent", but that > probably correlates with hexavalent chromium exposure more than > anything else. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245562 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5