This may be true at birth, however I think this
statement ignores the fact that people move around
and congregate in fixed locations.

Intelligent people (regardless of origin) have a
tendency to congregate in the same areas.  e.g.:
Universities and Laboratories.

Stupid people (regardless of origin) also have a
tendency to congregate in the same areas.  e.g.:
Trailer Parks, Public Housing, and Congress.

(Don't take me THAT seriously, humor is intended
in paragraphs 2 and 3 above.)

Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors


-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 5:15 PM

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