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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Doug Becker asks:

> Wirt Atmar wrote:
>
>  >If you look at where all of the Silicon Valleys are, they're smack in the
>  middle of the most liberal, most highly educated populations in the United
>  States.
>
>  A sincere question: Does that mean that conservative people are stupid?
>

Every bit of evidence we have suggests that intelligence is a rather
uniformly distributed quality in the human population. In that regard, there
were quite likely as many potential Einsteins in the villages of Kenya as
there were in the villages of Germany, at the time of Einstein's birth.

But educational opportunities are not nearly as uniformly distributed, and
because of that greatly nonuniform distribution of educational and economic
opportunities, there is a substantial waste of human potential. To a great
degree, that was the underlying core sentiment associated with Glenn's
original posting.

I still haven't had time to respond to Glenn response, but I will as soon as
I can.

Wirt Atmar

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