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[quote=Anonymous][quote]People are simply born with different bundles of gifts and abilities. There probably are ways of measuring this, but really, all you have to do is look around you. [b]Look at professional athletes: do you think they play their sports professionally just because they worked hard? No, they were born gifted athletes, and then they worked hard.[/b] Hitting baseballs every day does not make a child into a major league baseball player. Having the raw ability and then hitting baseballs every day can make a professional ball player. A prima ballerina doesn't get there simply by working hard: she must first have the gift of gracefulness and musicality. You can't be an opera singer at the Met simply by working hard and studying opera: you must first have a beautiful voice. 
Why should intelligence be any different? We all have different strengths in different areas that we were born with. Intelligence is one of many gifts we may be given and to be successful in any avenue, we certainly must work hard to reach our potential, but we are not all given the same amount of every gift. 
It actually doesn't matter whether we can measure intelligence or not. Some people were smarter than others long before intelligence tests existed, and some people will continue to be smarter than others even if they never take an intelligence test. A long time ago, one caveperson picked up a stone and thought "Hmm, this would make a good tool." S/he was the smart one. And s/he never took an intelligence test. [/quote]

How do you know athletes were born gifted before they choose their appointed task and worked hard.  Do you have any data of evidence for this?

If you do not have swimming pools in your neighborhood or rivers and seas in your country there is no opportunity to swim and show those gifts?

If there are no books or computers in your land, therefore, all children are born stupid, dumb and lacking intelligence?

The best basketball athletes in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s in the US were White.  They were therefore born gifted.  Blacks doing this period could not play basketball at these high levels.  They were not gifted basketball players.  However, when these people were then allowed and permitted to play basketball ... these gifts appeared in their children from birth?

The Fins have a reputation for a legacy of superb javelin throwing in their culture and land.  They were born gifted.  No one else likes throwing the javelin and therefore lack the throwing gifts endowed to the Fins?

I could go on ad nauseum.  The bottom line, if you can put the average individual born anywhere in the world (rural villages and urban cities) and put them in the right environment with the right exposure  these individuals too can become gifted at whatever task you choose -- intellectual, creative, physical.  There are examples of this throughout history and all over the world.
 
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