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Entry: Neocons and the Left: Know Your Enemies Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/neocons_and_the_left_know_your_enemies#2521 Post contents: Let's not confuse IQ testing with genetic testing. However, let's bear in mind that IQ data show that intelligence is largely an hereditary trait. What light does this shed on human nature? Precisely that inequality and hierarchy are natural to human society and that the conservative defense of traditional social order is soundly based in fact. Will someone tell me what is wrong with using IQ tests to identify children who have superior abilities, so that they may be educated in a fitting manner? Trying to "mainstream" the gifted and the subnormal with the merely average is what our public educational system does now. It is a failure, for that among other reasons. Lavish amounts are spent on "special education" for the ineducable, while the gifted are left to fend for themselves. Many of the latter become soured on the kind of education they receive as they are prevented from racing ahead of the plodders by the rigidity of the age-based grade in which they are placed. This leads to a sad waste of talent. Does "Kevin" really wish to perpetuate it, just to satisfy his egalitarian scruples? Sent at: 2008 05 16