Didn't "The Bell Curve" demonstrate an intellect difference correlated with skin color? Perhaps Prof. Hersch should have put IQ into the parameter mix, or not - too bland, no headlines! Well Professor, I did not see IQ as a factor in your list of considerations, what about that? Forgive my lack of PCness.
Isn't that because the "darker skinned" ones will only do jobs that we lazy, selfish, spoiled Americans won't do? I believe that means the low=paying ones.
To have any validity some sort of testing should occur, english fluency, math and verbal skills. Also if all the dark skinned ones could not write and light skinned ones could, then the study would not be valid. I believe there is some sort of factor, like ability or learning, or willingness to work that is occurring here.
The fact is that discrimination by skin tone is universal. The ruling class of virtually every society is, in fact, lighter than the rest of the population. That goes for Central Africa as much as for anywhere else. When a darker usurper seizes the seat of power, he proceeds to marry his progeny off to the lighter skinned people among his subjects or to lighter skinned spouses in neighboring realms.It happens among the elites in the subpopulations, too. The wealthier families try to insure that their spawn are mated with lighter skinned spouses. It is less among the economically developed populations where impetuous youth are able to make their own choices more readily but it does not go away because the youth still understand sub- if not wholly consciously that a lighter mate will meet with more approval from family than a darker even if the subject is never mentioned.It will not change until the government controls ALL matches and assigns spouses or casual impregnations by lottery or by some mathematical system to assure random mating or perhaps a systematic preferred result.
No. That is the bastardized understanding that was hyped about the book. They did not say that there was an IQ difference correlated with race. Thier point was far more subtle - that is, that there were racial and ethnic differences in IQ that cannot be entirely explained by environmental factors such as nutrition, social policy, or racism.
It should be noted, however, that key scientists - such as the late Stephen Jay Gould - argued against this book vehemently.
I agree. The findings are worthless until she controls for IQ.