Excuse me, but did you take math?
The fact that the AVERAGE black student is, more or less, one standard deviation behind the AVERAGE white student does not rule out smart blacks or stupid whites.
Posted on 09/23/2013 4:25:56 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Genetics. Have you ever wondered why much of black Africa hasn't ever showed much technological advancement?
"There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so."
Disparities between races had been narrowing until about five years ago, data show, but the numbers have changed little since then.
Gee, I wonder what happened about five years ago? What possibly could have had such a major impact?
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Obama gonna pay my rent! Tee Hee
We just hit the Lotto, Obama gonna buy my groceries!
We is never gonna have to work cuz Obama done set us free!
Well, I never,
GtG
Notice the disconnect when they said that minorities generally do less well because they are generally poor...then a few sentences later they said that white poor kids out tested rich black kids by a wide margin?
Also, why do they never talk about asians when they talk about minorities? Aren’t asians even more minority than the minorities?
Excuse me, but did you take math?
The fact that the AVERAGE black student is, more or less, one standard deviation behind the AVERAGE white student does not rule out smart blacks or stupid whites.
Why can't all white students excel? Because they are not all excellent. Intelligence is normally distributed in the population and all the huffing and puffing in the world will not change that.
You can take a rich white child, give her all the advantages money can buy, and still end up with a woman dumb as a fencepost. See Caroline Kennedy.
right on the cuckoo bird strategy...just might be what is going on
Ding! Ding! Ding!
We have a winner.
The article never mentioned parental involvement.
Hmmmmmm I wonder why.
It’s CULTURE!!
Look at the study habits of Jews, Asians, Whites, and Blacks and you will find a better correlation of intellectual achievement.
I would really like to see the results of a study where kids of different races were set for equal amounts of study time and then tested.
Teaching begins at home, even if it is only a few minutes each night.
My granddaughter is in the third grade and reads at a 6-7th grade level, or higher, and speaks like an adult about politics, science, dinosaurs (she can name 30 of them), and I taught her about “blimps” last night (using a 1954 trading card collection/book to show her what they look like and what their stats were).
Right now she is reading Si Robertson’s book, “Si-Chology 101” and is loving it (as well as the show. Spongbob has had his day. Now it’s “Duck Dynasty”, Miss Kay, Si, Phil and the boys).
Pre-schools are good but education begins at home, the earlier the better.
Bell Curve. Rice and Carson are top 1%. The article is discussing group performance.
Reality:
noun
1. The world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them.
synonyms: the real world, real life, actuality.
antonyms: fantasy
Use “Reality” in a sentence:
“Sometimes reality got in the way.”
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
You are absolutely correct. But so many just don't want to face reality. Too painful, I guess.
I am saying many blacks can excel given the right circumstances. And my math was called math.
Anyone interested in the subject should just do what dishonest liberals refuse to do: read the damn book.
Gee, but all of this is so at odds with what I observe in life on a daily basis. Yes, that’s sarcasm.
Partly the answer to be more educated is hard work.
They don’t say that, or that most adults don’t know enough to push their kids.
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