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Working classes are less intelligent, says evolution expert

Posted on 05/22/2008 3:07:07 PM PDT by GourmetDan

WORKING-CLASS students have lower IQs than those from wealthier backgrounds and should not be expected to win places at top universities, an academic has claimed. Bruce Charlton, an evolutionary psychiatrist at Newcastle University, has written a paper asserting the reason why fewer students from poor families are admitted to Oxford or Cambridge is not because of social prejudice, but lack of ability.

He suggests that low numbers of working-class students at elite universities is the "natural outcome" of "substantial" IQ differences between classes.... His claims could trigger an outcry similar to that faced by the Nobel prize-winning geneticist James Watson, who was forced to apologise after claiming that African and Caribbean workers were "demonstrably less able" than white ones.

However, Dr Charlton argues it is precisely the fear of creating controversy that prevents other academics taking the same line.

He said: "That is why such obvious scientific truths have not so far been stated clearly, or have actually been denied.

"(This theory is] accepted among those who know and understand the research."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: academia; creation; evolution; iq; missinglink; philosophy; science; writtenbyemilypykett
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1 posted on 05/22/2008 3:07:09 PM PDT by GourmetDan
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Reeks of eugenics.


2 posted on 05/22/2008 3:08:30 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: GourmetDan
"(This theory is] accepted among those who know and understand the research."

Elitism: only fathomed by those who believe in it."

That makes it a religion, and a pretty rotten one.

3 posted on 05/22/2008 3:09:17 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (The road to hell is paved with euphemisms.)
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To: GourmetDan

You need to see the movie Idiocracy.


4 posted on 05/22/2008 3:12:44 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Ahh yes. ASS. The movie.


5 posted on 05/22/2008 3:13:45 PM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: Retired Greyhound
"Reeks of eugenics."

Naturally. It's inherent in the theory.

What I found interesting is that this is 'accepted by those who know and understand the research', yet these same people are not willing to say so.

Apparently evolutionists all know this but are keeping quiet about it.

6 posted on 05/22/2008 3:13:49 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: GourmetDan

“If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?”


7 posted on 05/22/2008 3:15:30 PM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: GourmetDan

Source? Links?


8 posted on 05/22/2008 3:15:40 PM PDT by workerbee (Ladies do not start fights, but they can finish them.)
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To: GourmetDan

Big deal. Every society needs its blue-collar workers, its service industry people. They’re the backbone of any culture, no matter when or where.


9 posted on 05/22/2008 3:15:54 PM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: GourmetDan

The issue here is the confusion of cause and effect. It’s not that lower and working class people have lower IQ’s inherently. It’s that IQ limits one’s prospects in life. People with lower intellect tend to end up not making as much money as people who are smarter, nor managing it as well. Ted Kennedy is an exception to the rule, of course.


10 posted on 05/22/2008 3:16:28 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (I have Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance policies.)
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To: GourmetDan
The higher up the cherry tree the sweeter grows the cherry.

11 posted on 05/22/2008 3:17:35 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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Hm. So, since the Democrats market themselves as “The Party Of The Working Class®,” doesn’t this study mean that they’re the party of dumb people?


12 posted on 05/22/2008 3:18:01 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ktscarlett66

I take great pride in my blue collar heritage.


13 posted on 05/22/2008 3:18:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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To: GourmetDan
Bruce Carlton is a psychologist

His bio ...

Education:
Backwell Primary School & Backwell Comprehensive School, Somerset, England.
MBBS Honours : 1982 University of Newcastle upon Tyne MD : 1988 University of Newcastle upon Tyne - Neuroendocrine correlates of depression MA (English) : 1989 University of Durham - The literature of Alasdair Gray

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No Oxford or Cambridge. I guess he's not really smart enough to be taken seriously.

14 posted on 05/22/2008 3:18:55 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: Retired Greyhound
A evolutionary psychologist? In other words a psychologist who thinks he knows and understands Biology and evolution.

Humans are a very young and a very homogeneous population. If there were a gene that unambiguously conferred greater intelligence without any associated cost, why would it not reach 100% penetrance in the population?

Typical Brit “Shakespeare didn't write any plays because he was a bloody commoner” elitism as well.

In Societies with entrenched social stratification there is little upward mobility and a great tendency to justify this based upon anything and everything. Here in the U.S.A. the ‘lower classes’ produce hard working and highly intelligent individuals who become billionaires.

15 posted on 05/22/2008 3:19:52 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: Max in Utah
“If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?”

Hey, I'll have you know I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left.

So there. ;-)

16 posted on 05/22/2008 3:20:07 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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http://news.scotsman.com/education/Working-classes-are-less-.4108730.jp
17 posted on 05/22/2008 3:20:13 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: GourmetDan
"This theory is accepted among those who know and understand the research." LOL - What du heck duz dat meen, I dont git it.
18 posted on 05/22/2008 3:21:39 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Retired Greyhound

“Reeks of eugenics.”

Yep.

IQ tests are bogus and the well kept secret is that all of us have exactly the same IQ.


19 posted on 05/22/2008 3:22:22 PM PDT by EEDUDE
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"Source? Links?"

Oops, sorry. Obviously my lower-class IQ workin there.

http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Working-classes-are-less-.4108730.jp

20 posted on 05/22/2008 3:22:22 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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