tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post4711577366230820536..comments2024-01-28T00:20:40.933-08:00Comments on Agoraphilia: The Functional Form of IntelligenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-61723576241251242812007-11-05T21:07:00.000-08:002007-11-05T21:07:00.000-08:00The entire nature-vs.-nurture question is fundamen...The entire nature-vs.-nurture question is fundamentally flawed, because it's entirely up to nature what role nurture plays. A creature could exist whose genes completely defined its adult IQ, and another creature could exist whose genes allowed a great deal of nurture-mediated variation in adult IQ. There's no reason to think that all humans' genes allow for the same variation in adult IQ; one person might be virtually guaranteed (barring an extreme environment one way or the other) an IQ in the range 100-105, while another person might have an IQ in the range 85-130 depending on environmental factors. (Your functional forms hint at this, but there's no reason to think the various components are linear; indeed, it seems pretty clear that they're not, at least at the extremes. If they're linear within the normal range of human experience, it can only mean that the normal range is really quite narrow in an abstract sense.)Ranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01369980917358096502noreply@blogger.com