Posted on 01/23/2009 7:42:40 AM PST by reaganaut1
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[R]esearchers have documented what they call an Obama effect, showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama’s nomination all but disappeared when the exam was administered after his acceptance speech and again after the presidential election.
The inspiring role model that Mr. Obama projected helped blacks overcome anxieties about racial stereotypes that had been shown, in earlier research, to lower the test-taking proficiency of African-Americans, the researchers conclude in a report summarizing their results.
“Obama is obviously inspirational, but we wondered whether he would contribute to an improvement in something as important as black test-taking,” said Ray Friedman, a management professor at Vanderbilt University, one of the study’s three authors. “We were skeptical that we would find any effect, but our results surprised us.”
The study has not yet undergone peer review, and two academics who read it on Thursday said they would be interested to see if other researchers would be able to replicate its results.
Dr. Friedman and his fellow researchers, David M. Marx, a professor of social psychology at San Diego State University, and Sei Jin Ko, a visiting professor in management and organizations at Northwestern, have submitted their study for review to The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Dr. Friedman said.
“It’s a very small sample, but certainly a provocative study,” said Ronald F. Ferguson, a Harvard professor who studies the factors that have affected the achievement gap between white and nonwhite students, which shows up on nearly every standardized test. “There is a certainly a theoretical foundation and some empirical support for the proposition that Obama’s election could increase the sense of competence among African-Americans, and it could reduce the anxiety associated with taking difficult test questions.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
As a side benefit, if we could somehow compost all the fawning press manure spewed out over our great Zero, we’d probably end up free of foreign oil as well.
Yes, but has he been able to get the oceans to do his bidding yet?
And when Black test scores do not rise we’ll be treated to stories about “cultural Blackness”, hinting that BO “is not really Black.”
I actually love what Will Smith said on Oprah. “You have no more excuses. All gone”.
I hope it’s the truth, but I’m not real optimistic.
Notice they don't say whether the blacks did better or the whites did worse.
Diane Sawyer: "Barack Obama President Only 3 Days And Already Cripples Can Walk!"
They are talking about this on KLBJ today, but I call BS or the “dumbing down” effect from the publik sckhroul sistim.
That’s just PEACHY!
All this new talent shows up just in time for socialism! Nationalizing business will squelch innovation and stagnate growth!
ruefully
Proving Affirmative Action is no longer needed.
Right?
“On the initial test last summer, whites on average correctly answered about 12 of 20 questions, compared with about 8.5 correct answers for blacks, Dr. Friedman said. But on the tests administered immediately after Mr. Obama’s nomination acceptance speech, and just after his election victory, black performance improved, rendering the white-black gap “statistically nonsignificant,” he said.”
Even so, I call B*S. What will they make up next?
I tell you, it’s a show about NOTHING!
If true, this is so bad-so wrong on so many levels.
People-regardless of color or race should not look
to others for their success! Self reliance! Spunk!
Wit! Fortitude! These things should come from within
-because you are endowed by your Creator! My goodness
I get so everlasting tired of folk looking to someone
else as their savior! Yik!
/rant off/
This outdoes the standard liberal BS these NYT clowns regularly churn out. This “report” is total fabrication - an unbelievably moronic piece of nonsense. And yes, I DO have degrees in Psychology. There is no evidence for this drivel...the NYT ship of fools has slipped its mooring...
“The study has not yet undergone peer review, and two academics who read it on Thursday said they would be interested to see if other researchers would be able to replicate its results.”
Harumph...whoever would sign off on something like this is a bigger fraud than those who would bother reporting it...anyone who would “replicate” it would become King of Fools...God help us, they want us to think that Obomber is making kids smarter by being President...I’m going to have to go lie down now...
There's many more. My son's acne cleared up as Obama finished the Oath (the first time). My wife lost five pounds the moment Obama finished taking his oath (the second time). I don't have that leg-tingle tht so many in the media get, but I've got a scalp tingle that makes me think my hair is ready to grow back; I'm just waiting for one more administration of the Oath of Office before I check.
It was just their lack of self-esteem that was the problem.
The endemic gangster culture that they embrace has nothing to do with it.
All of this by just electing the Mullatto Obama, think of what we would have gotten if we had elected a real black man, Say Rodney King.
More evidence of the typical American’s stupidity that bred the mass hysteria that flung this fraud to 1600.
No doubt he has, and by next week this guy will have cured cancer and the common cold after ushering in world wide peace and feeding the world’s starving masses.
Whites will have to start scoring lower,because that right.
And Yellows had better mellow to lower test scores and
Reds had better give away free ‘Ports as a last resort.
The End!
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