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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what's useful/right about thinking of intelligence as fixed and innate?  [/quote]
How about that it's largely consistent with empirical evidence?  We've all met people who are quick learners, highly adept at what they do, and are just generally "smart" and "intelligent."  And similarly, we've all met people who are just plain slow.  Yes, the smart people can suffer degradation of abilities, and the slow people can make up for lack of innate ability through hard work and practice.  But it certainly seems that everyone starts life at some fixed or innate set-point, which can be moderated up or down only incrementally through experience.  It's basically the nature-as-modified-by-nurture concept, which seems pretty commonly accepted.

I'm a NP, so maybe I'm rehashing a point you already discussed.  If so, forgive me.[/quote]

My experience is that babies and preschoolers are little learning machines and you watch some get revved up (by their parents or environments) and others get shut down.  While I'd like to think that my kid is really special, I noticed that other kids, approached in the way I approach her, were capable of similar responses, insights, etc.  That said, I don't interact with a random sample of kids.

At any rate, I see more differentiation in intelligence as kids age, which makes me less inclined to think that intellectual differences are primarily innate.  I believed more in IQ when I taught college.  Once I started hanging out with preschoolers, I became more of a skeptic![/quote]

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