Re:genetic engineering of IQ thought experiment

From: John B (discwuzit@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 09:13:21 MDT

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    A couple kicker suggestions, Mez -

    a) There must be a statistically significant number of children to get
    anything resembling a bell
    curve.

    b) The children must be raised in different manners if ALL (and I agree -
    that's a kneeslapper!)
    the IQ-affecting genes are identical to produce a range of expression of
    those genes. Again, the
    bell curve would otherwise look extremely spikey/clumpy if only a few
    identical methods of raising
    the children are used.

    c) We do know that Einstein was somewhat of a sport - his brain, as found by
    autopsy, had gross
    abnormalities. This will also affect the process.

    -John

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