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After reading William Saletan's "Created Equal" article on slate.com, which talks about a new report "validating" past claims of correlations between IQ, race and head size, I just shook my head.

He mentions how with MRI measurements it was calculated that brain size has a 40 percent correlation with IQ. Which I just find to mean that more often than not, brain size doesn't have anything to do with IQ.

While I know the intent of the article was to ruffle a few feathers, I still see a problem with assuming IQ tests uh measure intelligence.

In the second article of the series, he argues against the genetic theory of intelligence, citing how supportive families and environment stimulate smarts. He cites how the gradual close of the gap between whites and blacks also disproves the genetic theory. But again I'm disappointed with how much weight he gives IQ tests.

Alfred Binet, who created IQ tests, realized the limitations. He also agreed environment affected the scores. The real purpose of the test was to see which students needed extra help, not to see who was the most intelligent.  Binet said intelligence was so diverse and so many variables affected it, that qualitative measures should be used in addition to any quantitative measures.
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posted by tbozick on Friday, November 23, 2007 at 10:51 PM
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Jenna Bush's face is plastered on the front of this month's Texas Monthly and inside Jenna says her days of getting plastered are behind her.

Jenna's an inner-city schoolteacher who just wrote her first book while living in the shadow of her father in Washington D.C.

Her new book Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope has received criticism in the media that Jenna couldn't have written it without a ghostwriter or her father is using her to receive some positive association.

Skip Hollandsworth, the man who interviewed Jenna for the story, writes how he joked with the president that her book is better than his campaign biography.

Jenna's inspiration for her book was the story of a 17-year-old single mother with HIV who struggles with poverty and abuse. Jenna met her while working as an intern with the Latin American division of UNICEF in 2006.

The book includes advice about what to do in situations of abuse or what to do if you contract HIV.
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posted by tbozick on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 09:01 AM
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James Lipton's new book Inside Inside garnered interest when the host of Inside the Actor's Studio revealed he was once a pimp in France.

Some readers criticized his memoirs as another bad attempt by an actor who thinks he can write, but others love the insight into a life much surrounded by actors, Broadway and writing and producing a popular television show.

Reading the allusion-filled grandiose writing may prove a little dull, but the memoirs are full of interesting tidbits that keep us sifting for more.
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