Size matters !

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Bart

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Oh well, the scientific community has once again verified what we have already known. Size matters (brain size) when it comes to intelligence !I don't think Ihave to explain how and why this relates to the racial debates on this forum.


http://www.vcu.edu/uns/Releases/2005/june/061705.html
RICHMOND, Va. (June 17, 2005) - People with
bigger brains are smarter than their smaller-brained counterparts, according to a study conducted by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher published in the journal "Intelligence."
 
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Nice Post. I don't think there ever was any
question that larger brains contribute to intelligence. However,
people with smaller brains can more than make up for there brain size
by doing things such as reading, analyzing, or thinking intensely in
things such as Chess to increase "surface area", which is more
important than size generally in biology.

Einstein did not have a large amount of neurons in
his brain. However he had an abnormally large number of glial
cells which have been found to make neurons reach action potentials
faster. To keep it simple, his brain was not that big, but
had cells that made it work efficiently.



Neanderthals had a larger brain than modern man, but
lower intelligence. They may have had superior memorization
ability however. Scientists think they died out because there
brains became too large for the mother's wombs.
 
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As for the racial implications of this, I do not see
much significance except that the larger brained races are probably
able to multi-task more and are more versatile. A larger brain would
not make someone a super math genius, but would give them more brain
cells to use on everything I infer. Blacks do not always have
smaller brains though.

On the whole, southpaws have small brains and
are considered brain damaged by some. However, they are
disproportionately represented in math, art, and the sciences.

I did hear a black say something so anti-black
unintentionally the other day. She said the MCAS(its a test in
Massachusetts required to graduate high-school) was biased towards
blacks because it required intelligence. What should it
require? Dance Ability?
 
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