Amadeus Schmidt wrote:
>> >So what effect does this have on I.Q., what effect
>>d oes
>> >this have on behaviour? HUGE in my opinion.
>> Brain size of todays living humans is *not* linked to the I.Q.

>Another odd paradox is the fact that IQ scores have steadily and
>substantially *risen* during the second half of the 20th century,
>despite this being the period of greatest ingestion of processed
>foods and non-foods.  Very strange.
>Todd Moody

Another thing that has steadily and substantially risen during the same
period is the incidence of autism and similar "different" brain
patterns, such as Asperger's syndrome, and the Computer Nerd (all
techical/no social).  Our heads tend to be bigger, but I haven't seen
statistics on whether our brains are actually bigger.  Function seems to
be a matter of I.Q. in these conditions.  Because I have a very high
I.Q. I can think my way around my neurological disaster zone and seem to
be functioning in society.  But I am reminded over and over again each
day that I am cognitively functioning on a two- or three-year-old level
when I intereact with my environment.

You will probably see more and more of us streaming out of our
neurological closet, as there seem to be so many of us now (and we
socialize and organize on the internet) that there is no longer
metaphorical "room" for us all to stay crammed in there as society's
rejects.

Patty (dfferently enabled, and perhaps diagonally parked in a parallel
universe)