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High school science fair project questioning African American intelligence sparks outrage
Sacramento Bee ^ | 2/10/2018 | Diana Lambert and Anita Chabria

Posted on 02/10/2018 9:06:09 AM PST by vox humana

Students, parents and staff at C.K. McClatchy High School are upset over a science fair project by a student in its elite magnet program that questioned whether certain races of people lack the intelligence to handle the program’s academically challenging coursework.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article199440204.html#storylink=cpy

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: africanamerican; bellcurve; intelligence; iq; racism; science
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To: vox humana

The book The Bell Curve (1994) lays it out perfectly. The average black as an 85 IQ, which is considered retarded. The black bell curve is 65-85 IQ, which is highly dysfunctional. It is why blacks are more prone to act primal and tear down instead of building up their societies.


21 posted on 02/10/2018 9:18:40 AM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: vox humana
From the book The Bell Curve:


22 posted on 02/10/2018 9:19:31 AM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Catmom

Same could be said for studying and bringing up slavery. It is long gone and we should focus on issues today like destruction of the family.


23 posted on 02/10/2018 9:19:55 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Pining_4_TX

“The truth about race and intelligence is not allowed to be known.”

I think it is “known,” but not to be acknowledged or spoken about.

Bell curves from decades back, will be reinforced by DNA, Epigenetics, etc.


24 posted on 02/10/2018 9:20:12 AM PST by truth_seeker
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To: vox humana

Notice how the student’s question never got answered.

Today’s U.S. is like 1957 People’s Republic of China.


25 posted on 02/10/2018 9:21:03 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: vox humana
She said the student who prepared the report has a history of making racist remarks in class. He is described by peers as a boy of Asian descent and a participant in the accelerated Humanities and International Studies program, or HISP.
26 posted on 02/10/2018 9:21:17 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: vox humana

The kids obviously never read “The Bell Curve”


27 posted on 02/10/2018 9:21:28 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: Catmom

Well you kind of answered your own question. Its a disagreeble subject certainly, but it is relevent evidence in an analysis of if non equal outcome is neccesarily due to prejudice, which is a fudemental assumption driving affirmative action policy.


28 posted on 02/10/2018 9:21:28 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: SpaceBar

Reality is sooooo inconvenient for these LIB morons.


29 posted on 02/10/2018 9:21:56 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Spok

We’ve always been at war with Noticing.


30 posted on 02/10/2018 9:22:55 AM PST by relictele
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To: vox humana

Simple solution, let that race prove their intelligence by putting together their own program....with the caveat “Asians” need not apply.....


31 posted on 02/10/2018 9:23:21 AM PST by yoe ("The FBI did everything but drive Hillary's get away car.......")
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To: Catmom

Who raised these kids? Storm Front? :)

It is likely that there is an order and I would put asians at the top.

But you’re right? What exactly was the POINT of the experiment?

How were they planning to rectify it!?!?

And what mom or dad said “hey, that’s a GREAT idea!” :)

And then there’s nurture vs nature.


32 posted on 02/10/2018 9:23:22 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: vox humana
“I think that a lot of people, especially of color, are really hurt and upset by this,” said Chrysanthe Vidal, a senior in the HISP program.

The truth doesn't care about your feelings - Ben Shapiro

33 posted on 02/10/2018 9:24:38 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Catmom

Agreed. This metric ignores the individual for the abstract collective. But tribal politics is here for quite a bit longer. It has become both sword and shield.


34 posted on 02/10/2018 9:25:16 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Ace McCain: The tumor is a rumor but the boot was a hoot.)
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To: CodeToad

Ive met enough smart black people that I am dubious of that graphic.


35 posted on 02/10/2018 9:25:42 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Shockley nailed it years ago..... and tied it to evolution... NFL and NBA demonstrates it every year. Facts are facts... you just can’t talk about some facts.


36 posted on 02/10/2018 9:26:15 AM PST by DOC44
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To: SpaceBar

China 1957? Right before Mao did away with some 45 million people.


37 posted on 02/10/2018 9:26:29 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: vox humana

Races of people don’t have or lack anything as they are made up of individuals that are responsible for their own performance, and are not a collective where each person is responsible for some other person’s success or lack of.


38 posted on 02/10/2018 9:27:44 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Catmom

Do you not see the conflict between the two lines of text you wrote?

In order to return to a merit-based system, we must first do away with the moral-relativistic lie that there are no differences between anything.

In order to do that, we need to re-establish a criteria of what is intelligence.

In order to do that, we need to draw a distinction between the capacity to think, to comprehend, to analyze, to synthesize and to create.

This student is pointing out what was accepted as fact up through the first half of the 20th century and which was overturned by the Boazian school of anthropology. In short, in the nature vs. nurture debate, the Boazians through out all nature and said that all differences between people were little more than a ‘social construct’ brought about by the evil, corrupt Judeo-Christian values and traditions upon which Western Civilization is founded.

It is an established (scientific, to those of you who worship at the altar of the physical science and scoff at metaphysics) that on average the brains of whites are larger and heavier than those of blacks.

This student is simply trying to extrapolate from that to determine whether — based upon the current thought stream that all human intelligence is strictly brain-related and has nothing to do with that silly, metaphysical notion of the Soul — that extra brain capacity equates to a higher overall intelligence (according to classical measures, not the current “self-esteem” and “self-expression” standards in the government-run schools).

I think this student’s science project is not only a sign of extreme courage, of true independence, but I think it is actually a sign of true genius given the current climate that abhors the differences inherent in God’s creation (a beautiful thing) and try to make the claim and to brainwash the masses into believing there are no difference except those caused by the evil, corrupt traditions and values of Western Civilization.


39 posted on 02/10/2018 9:29:17 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare to survive.)
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To: Renkluaf

“The 1994 book by political scientist Charles Murray brought the idea into the national consciousness, though it has been widely criticized by mainstream scientists.”

Criticized because they can show Dr. Murray was wrong...or criticized because no one is allowed to present that data?

Reminds me of studies on gays...they don’t come out very good (relating to violence, health issues, etc.) - so the solution is to PROHIBIT those studies. There are still ones from the 1970s and earlier, and that’s all we have.


40 posted on 02/10/2018 9:29:51 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart...I just don't tell anyone)
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