06-01-2009, 02:08 AM
Subramaniamji,
I was just thinking up all the cases I know of within the family tree. And it does appear that language, maths and music skills seem to be inherited as a group. Multilingualism, abstract mathematical skills, art and music seems to come together. And in my students, I can recognize that only a few cross a certain threshold which I can identify as compatible with myself. That level does seem to exist by birth, and cannot be really trained. Once such a brain is available, communication becomes very natural - and teaching or research based on such communication becomes fluid.
But not all in the same clan/caste group cross that level, but reach a high performance level due to persistence, trained habits, and commitment, all with perhaps a basic higher level of IQ.
But there could be some orders of difference between this above average IQ and a certain peculiar ability in abstract or pure maths. The latter does not seem to be "trainable" in a fundamental sense.
Could there be different types of IQ and the caste patterns that emerge in one respect change in another "type" of IQ?
I was just thinking up all the cases I know of within the family tree. And it does appear that language, maths and music skills seem to be inherited as a group. Multilingualism, abstract mathematical skills, art and music seems to come together. And in my students, I can recognize that only a few cross a certain threshold which I can identify as compatible with myself. That level does seem to exist by birth, and cannot be really trained. Once such a brain is available, communication becomes very natural - and teaching or research based on such communication becomes fluid.
But not all in the same clan/caste group cross that level, but reach a high performance level due to persistence, trained habits, and commitment, all with perhaps a basic higher level of IQ.
But there could be some orders of difference between this above average IQ and a certain peculiar ability in abstract or pure maths. The latter does not seem to be "trainable" in a fundamental sense.
Could there be different types of IQ and the caste patterns that emerge in one respect change in another "type" of IQ?