It would be a statistical fluke if they had the same exact IQs.
In any discussion like this I think it’s wise to remember this analogy. Swedes are taller than Portuguese but Portuguese basketball players are taller that Swedish jockeys. Every individual should be assessed on his or her individual characteristics.
My mother always said “ You are Judged by those you have around you.”
I suppose in retrospect we could say we Judge others by their actions.
Is that racist? If it is it’s tough .
It is racist to come to any conclusions on race, unless you conclude that all minority races are being oppressed.
If the IQ tests are not reliable, take a poll and ask questions. Everyone is relying on polls. [/sarc]
Depends. If you poll nationwide, probably not. If you poll within groups of similar education/income level, then yes.
Remember what was done to the people who wrote “The Bell Curve”. Facts be damned, the agenda is all important.
I haven’t clicked on NRO since they fired John Derbyshire.
It seems as though IQ in this instance, is measuring assimilation. The hip hop culture is less like dominate American culture than is Hispanic culture but black language is more like English than is Spanish. Asian language lag is somewhat offset by aggressive assimilation.
It’s those whitey biased IQ tests that makes ‘em LOOK dumber than they are...
It is racist to notice or communicate anything negative about any “protected minority”, either as individuals or as a group.
Of course, it is a convenient compulsion to exploit by those intent on destroying the very concept of a Nation, and the promotion of the bias that encourages that compulsion may be directly traced to those trying to subvert America into a New World Order. (See Norman Cousins & Surrender By Subterfuge.) It was a major factor in the push for the Teddy Kennedy immigration "reform" in 1965.
William Flax
Guess what, from a PR perspective, none of this exegesis matters in the least. It doesn’t matter what is true, and he didn’t mean it this way, etc. What matters is that just like in the Victorian era, when one didn’t say.the word ”pregnant” were not used, in our society we can’t talk openly about racial genetics and interiority. Period. So if you want to talk about it, you had better make that topic your career, because you wilk have impaired your credibility to discuss anything else. Period. The writer and the HF should have realized that his previous paper on racial intellectual inequality would be used as a weapon to destroy not only his new study on immigration, but to smear the HF and discredit the entire conservative movement. So I say to them: badly, stupidly, carelessly played to not have seen that coming.
Experience would tell you that there are some very smart black people, and some very dumb white people.
When I first heard about this, I was not surprised that the guy would be under attack. Of course, on the other hand, how long do you think you can get away with a dissertation like this and call it “work”? Isn’t this one for a Captain Obvious award? Do folks think they are sneaking across the border to get books instead of landscaping jobs? If they were the smartest, most productive people, the Democrats would be clamoring for a fence 500’ feet high.
That’s interracial!
Statistical evidence is insufficient to support the hypothesis that Hispanics and Blacks have a lower average IQ than whites.
However ... statistical evidence is sufficient to support the hypothesis that a policy that has a “disparate impact” is evidence of deliberate discrimination against Hispanics and Blacks.
Ox? Gored?
Any fact about any protected race that is not completely flatering will be determined to be racist and the proponent of the fact in question will be determined to be racist. Even saying balcks are killing balck in Chicago is a racist comment if a white man makes the comment. Just ask Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. That is how they make their living.