Posted on 07/29/2015 6:39:13 AM PDT by IChing
“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” - Booker T. Washington
America would be much better off if we could get back to the Booker T way of thinking.
Funny, he's not the one who is linking to AmRen and the National Policy Institute.
Opposing white supremacists does not make one a "tool."
You, on the other hand, seem to be linking to the SPLC.
No, not really. Not at all, actually.
From The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, regarding 2005 SAT scores:
In 2005, 153,132 African Americans took the SAT test. They made up 10.4 percent of all SAT test takers. But only 1,132 African-American college-bound students scored 700 or above on the math SAT and only 1,205 scored at least 700 on the verbal SAT. Nationally, more than 100,000 students of all races scored 700 or above on the math SAT and 78,025 students scored 700 or above on the verbal SAT. Thus, in this top-scoring category of all SAT test takers, blacks made up only 1.1 percent of the students scoring 700 or higher on the math test and only 1.5 percent of the students scoring 700 or higher on the verbal SAT.For companies looking for super-smart people, there just aren't enough qualified blacks to satisfy Jesse Jackson or the EEOC...
If we raise the top-scoring threshold to students scoring 750 or above on both the math and verbal SAT — a level equal to the mean score of students entering the nation's most selective colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and CalTech — we find that in the entire country 244 blacks scored 750 or above on the math SAT and 363 black students scored 750 or above on the verbal portion of the test. Nationwide, 33,841 students scored at least 750 on the math test and 30,479 scored at least 750 on the verbal SAT. Therefore, black students made up 0.7 percent of the test takers who scored 750 or above on the math test and 1.2 percent of all test takers who scored 750 or above on the verbal section.
FR is changing. Just a few years ago, the Mods would have pulled this thread with a “no thanks”.
Many on the right are absolutely fed up with political correctness and cuckservatism, and they are waking up to the fact that demographics are destiny.
Years ago, Trump’s remarks would have lost him all of the support he is enjoying now.
Things do look to be changing, and if so, that’s good.
Yes, I saw that numerous times.
I’m glad it has changed, we need an honest discussion of racial issues somewhere, and there are precious few places where it happens.
Several years ago, I expressed the opinion that Obama was going to set race relations back 100 years. It’s increasingly looking like I was right.
A 700 or higher on the math section is good enough for a scholarship and/or admission to a very selective college, but 500 is the average score. The average engineering major, for example, scores just a little bit above average (in the 500’s) on the SAT math portion. If you don’t believe me, check here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-average-sat-score-for-every-college-major-2014-10
IOW, the SAT may be a good measuring tool indicating potential success in college, but it’s not the end-all. Employers don’t care whether you’ve scored high on the SAT. The degree is what matters.
Neither. It's about family. It's about hard work. It's about the decisions we make in life.
Then, if hyenas and orangutans just made better choices they’d have outcomes on par with, say, the Swiss?
???? That question makes no sense whatsoever.
The context of my post in the Twitter thread was "For companies looking for super-smart people".
At MIT, a 750 SAT Math score puts you at just the 25th percentile.
The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study looked at black kids adopted as babies by upper-middle-class white families, with adopting parental IQ averaging 120.
The black kids' IQ scores were measured at the age of 17. The average black IQ is 85. The kids with two black biological parents scored 89. So, even with every possible environmental advantage, the improvement was minimal.
That’s MIT. There are plenty of other colleges. MIT doesn’t have all the high-scoring SAT test-takers.
I personally know of students who scored close to perfect SAT scores and are attending other colleges.
Whenever I see studies like that one, I think, “So what?”
As a conservative, you believe in higher standards and hard work - right?
Conservatism is about individualism - it’s all about the choices you make.
The Left is all about group status.
Why not? You say biology has nothing to do with it, right?
For that matter, why is the product of a horse and a donkey called a mule, and not a horse?
Both the left and cuckservatives deny racial differences, because racists are supposed to be horrible people.
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