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To: Zhang Fei
I don't understand the animosity over statistical fact.

Two things:
First of all, I have no animosity.
Second, I reject your reality and substitute my own. These are not "facts" but interpretations of "facts". In short, opinions. Don't hate me because I'm not ready to accept your superiority over me just because you happen to be white.

19 posted on 05/10/2013 9:13:10 PM PDT by stormhill (Guns Save Lives!)
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To: stormhill
Don't hate me because I'm not ready to accept your superiority over me just because you happen to be white.

Facts are stubborn things and don't change just because we will them to do so. The assertion here is not that whites are superior to blacks but that on average, whites are smarter than blacks just as on average blacks are better runners than whites. All because of accidents of birth, in the same way that Great Danes are bigger than German Shepherds, but German Shepherds are smarter than Great Danes. On average, that is. From a practical standpoint, a black guy with a higher IQ than a white guy doesn't become dumber just because of the statistical average. It's just that when you pick out some random black guy, as well as some random white guy - the first is likely to be more athletic whereas the second is likely to have superior raw intelligence.

It's no different from how among whites, Jews punch way above their weight. The current research is pointing to a high degree of genetic determinism - to the point that DNA hard wiring is not only responsible for intelligence - it also sets out persistence, diligence, risk-taking tendencies, and so on, pretty much at conception. There are a lot of unknowns out there. Unfortunately, political correctness at home is squashing a lot of the funding for domestic research.

21 posted on 05/10/2013 9:47:14 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: stormhill

I promise not to argue the IQ issue with you.

But deeply disturbing “real life” statistics also exist.

In my mind, California is a fair proxy for the general quality of the millions of illegal Hispanic immigrants who might receive Amnesty.

In California:

The high school drop out rate for Hispanics is higher than Blacks.

The out of wedlock birth rate for Hispanics is higher than Blacks.

The incarceration rate for Hispanics is equal to Blacks.

Millions of California Hispanics have lived in America for two, three, even four generations.

And this is the outcome?

High IQ, equal IQ, or low IQ, why should America gamble any more resources on this ethnic group?


25 posted on 05/11/2013 12:32:49 AM PDT by zeestephen
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