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Race and IQ: A High School Science Fair Project Ignites a Storm
American Thinker ^ | 02/14/2018 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 02/14/2018 7:50:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind

We don’t know the student’s name, but we do know that he hit a nerve — in fact, he hit a whole bunch of them. Identified only as a boy of Asian descent at C.K. McClatchy High School in California, the teen’s recent science-fair project, “Race and IQ,” propounded the thesis that differences in groups’ average intelligence influence their academic performance. He couldn’t win, though, because his project was removed after parents, staff and other students became “upset” and one girl said she felt “unsafe and uneasy.” The irony?

A project on evolution would no doubt have been well received — even though an assumption of racial differences is implicit in evolutionary theory.

In fact, The Sacramento Bee, which hasn’t yet evolved out of the progressive primordial soup, mentioned that the student’s thesis is associated with eugenics (which the Bee casts negatively), the science of improving the human race via selective breeding. The paper is likely unaware, however, that the term “eugenics” itself was coined by Sir Francis Galton — a cousin of famed evolutionist Charles Darwin — and that Galton made clear that in his eugenicist endeavors, he was merely building on his cousin’s work.

Philosopher G.K. Chesterton once noted that if people “were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal.” This is easy to understand: What are the chances that different groups could have “evolved” isolated from one another for eons — subject to different environments, stresses, procreation-influencing cultural imperatives and adaptive realities — and ended up identical in every worldly measure? Why, even if the peoples evolved isolated in identical environments, the separation alone would make the prospects of winding up completely “equal” a virtual statistical impossibility.

Whatever you believe about evolution, it’s clear that equality is not a thing of this world.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iq; race; sciencefair
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1 posted on 02/14/2018 7:50:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Chinese Nazis back for another thread


2 posted on 02/14/2018 7:52:00 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

HERE IS AN OBSERVATION THAT CANNOT BE DENIED:

In IQ Tests, Ashkenazi Jews score the highest of all, at 115 (the world average is currently about 88); this may explain why Jews are only 0.2 percent of the world’s population but were 22 percent of the 20th century’s Nobel Prize winners.

Hong Kong and Singapore lead the country list with average IQs of 108, while many nations register far, far lower.

Note that while good scientists may debate why these differences exist and how meaningful they are, that they exist is not in dispute.

But then, Tay-Sachs disease is most common among Ashkenazi Jews, while sickle cell anemia is almost exclusive to people of Middle Eastern, Indian, Mediterranean and African heritage.

Relative to American whites, American blacks generally have longer limbs, more sweat glands (and thus dissipate heat better), narrower pelvises and greater bone density; and black men have higher free testosterone levels than white men do. Not that it’s the focus of IQ studies, but all these characteristics bring advantages and disadvantages.

If you want to blame someone or something, blame nature, not the one making the observation.


3 posted on 02/14/2018 7:53:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left hates science.


4 posted on 02/14/2018 7:53:55 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
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To: SeekAndFind


5 posted on 02/14/2018 7:54:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: SeekAndFind
Where people are equal is in the Unalienable Rights which they possess...
6 posted on 02/14/2018 7:56:21 AM PST by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: SeekAndFind

There are several facts that are taboo. If you say them, an unreasonable, insane, hysterical storm erupts with your destruction as its goal. Saying them is the worst thing anyone can do. Murdering is more tolerated. You could slice a neck in broad daylight and the outrage would be much less.

These facts are true. There is no doubt about them. Test after test has shown that there is a big disparity in outcomes according to race. It’s time to pay attention to what the tests are showing and stop pretending that everyone in all races is exactly equivalent.


7 posted on 02/14/2018 7:57:24 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The truth hurts apparently.


8 posted on 02/14/2018 7:57:42 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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To: SeekAndFind

Data is data. Rejecting this data is like trying to prove the law of gravity doesn’t exist.


9 posted on 02/14/2018 7:57:46 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SeekAndFind

There are also studies regarding Impulse control and violence in the AA community.


10 posted on 02/14/2018 8:03:59 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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To: SeekAndFind

True science is not a friend of today’s public schools.
Faux science, of course, is.


11 posted on 02/14/2018 8:05:33 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind

Later


12 posted on 02/14/2018 8:10:50 AM PST by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abramsp)
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Funny the real settled science is unsettling. While the made up stuff is treated biblically by the enviroweenies.


13 posted on 02/14/2018 8:11:45 AM PST by pfflier
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Tendency of an ethnic group or a race is not destiny for the individual. For members of a racial or ethnic group that seems to be low aptitude for certain aptitudes, members of that group should be aware. If they aren't, they'll set their limits based on people they have the most contact with.

Affirmative action has had serious negative consequences. It sends the message that there are those who can't meet high enough expectations to be truly qualified. It's interesting to note that minorities who have succeeded on their own merit, for instance the three gals portrayed in Hidden Figures, get so little recognition. One can't help but suspect that those who pull the strings would rather keep blacks on the plantation by demanding special favors, being told they can't succeed on their own merit.

End of rant.

14 posted on 02/14/2018 8:11:52 AM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: SeekAndFind
I thought these guys already settled that argument....


15 posted on 02/14/2018 8:12:35 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

The Bell Curve is a great read.

I don’t believe racism is the reason most star basketball players are black, and I don’t think racism is the reason most star mathematicians are Jewish.

I’m neither, BTW.


16 posted on 02/14/2018 8:12:56 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: hal ogen

Rejecting this data is like trying to prove the law of gravity doesn’t exist.
= = =

Schiff left it out of his memo. It does not exist.


17 posted on 02/14/2018 8:14:10 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (You know that I am full of /S)
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To: SeekAndFind
Due to the internet, the IQ genie is out of the bottle.

I had ZERO idea until one day on Liberty Post (remember that board?) a poster there posted a breakdown. I thought it was pretty fascinating and looked into it a little.

18 posted on 02/14/2018 8:17:08 AM PST by riri
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To: TallahasseeConservative
There are also studies regarding Impulse control and violence in the AA community.

Which might be related to the testosterone level differences mentioned in #3.

19 posted on 02/14/2018 8:25:38 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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This High School is about 4 miles from my house. It’s one of those “high end” inner city high schools.

They pretend everybody is smart. And nobody is stupid.

Whereas 95% of the students have an IQ below 100, and at least 50% are below 75.

The “racist” in question is Japanese with a 135 IQ. It takes about a 120 IQ to gain entry to this special program. It’s chock full of white kids and Asians, making up over 80%. The blacks and Hispanics are widely believed to be “affirmed” into the program, though I have no doubt some are deserving.

The reaction in Sacramento has been apoplectic. Some SJW’s are insisting the “racist” be exposed, with his picture in the paper. And on the nightly news. He “must be made an example”. Others want the entire program disbanded, and all like it.

Worse, some, those likely to prevail, want to do whatever is needed to “equalize the opportunity” and have gifted programs “that reflect the community”.

They really want to put dumb-assed kids with a 75 IQ into a college prep/gifted program. And ruin it for everyone.


20 posted on 02/14/2018 8:26:11 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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