[Pan_Yan]

Staggering numbers.

[Pan_Yan]

Another Ping. Worth reading the whole article.

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s the IQ thing. Known for a long, long time, but we’re not supposed to talk about it.

[dfwgator]

Studying science ain’t keepin’ it real.

[doc1019]

A Georgia Tech researcher asks: Where are the black students in science, math?

Selling meth.

[Morgana]

Math? Science? I did not expect them to know that since they can’t read “cursive writing”.

No that did not need a /sarc tag

[stboz]

Where are the black students in science, math?

Dey out makin rap yo. Voop, voop muggafluga, Voop, voop muggafluga

Dat where da money at yo.

[yarddog]

I recall some things Thomas Jefferson wrote concerning the intelligence of Blacks. I do not recall everything exactly except it agreed completely with what modern IQ tests show.

I do recall that Math and abstract reasoning were their weak points but he considered them close to equal to whites in verbal skills.

[RightGeek]

black students are excluded from much of the STEM conversation and are nearly entirely excluded from the higher level STEM education discourse

Conversation? Discourse? What planet are they from?

[Chickensoup]

No, they are not excluded, they are not well enough educated or interested in the STEM programs.

[wardaddy]

Same place women are

Not there

And so effing what pray tell

[blueunicorn6]

According to the newspaper, the tests are too hard.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

Black students, on average, perform worse academically and have lower IQs. Math and science are fields that require an absolute correct answer via a formula. You cannot BS through those fields like you can many of the social sciences or African-American studies.

[BerryDingle]

Fascinating read:

The Bell Curve

1994

Richard J Herrnstein and Charles Murray

[Paradox]

I'm from a group that does poorly in such tests. I, however, am an exception. Whats special about me? I was raised in an upper middle class family, whose parents made damn sure he did well in school, whose parents encouraged learning and intellectual pursuits.

American "black" culture is a failure, academically speaking. I don't think its as genetic as many here might think, I knew too many minorities in college, usually from a non-American black upbringing, who were in engineering and science, and did as well as I did. Its mostly a cultural debacle we have witnessed.

[Pharmboy]

There may be several variables, but the teachers unions and the liberal local and state gummints certainly did not help.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It couldn't possibly have anything to do with The Bell Curve.

It is racist to imply that certain people have higher IQs than certain other people.

[NonValueAdded]

What, partake in white peoples studies?

[Revolting cat!]

Don need no math fo foo stams!

[UCANSEE2]

[Where are the black students in science, math?]

In the hood, don’t they just shoot all the nerds?

[Lancey Howard]

They’re over in “African-American Studies”, because that’s the kind of major that lands the good jobs... teaching “African American Studies”.