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To: reaganaut1

What about the Duke brothers in “Trading Places”, lol? Seems a lot of rich kids like Obama and Hillary and Warren, so brain size difference is not so much of an issue as compared to how it is actually used.


2 posted on 04/16/2015 5:17:15 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: OttawaFreeper
Well, this is the point of "The Bell Curve" by Murray and Hernstein. They were right after all.

I read another study on families---I think by Kay Hymowicz, but I could be mistaken on the author---that said that poorer mothers, even "good ones," will interact with a kid differently than more educated mothers (though not necessarily more affluent). For ex., a poorer mother who even reads to her kid will read the word "dog" and the kid will repeat "dog." And that is the end of it, where as more educated mothers will say, "And what sound does the dog make? And what sound does the cat make?" and start a whole learning conversation.

17 posted on 04/16/2015 5:33:51 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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