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I've read your rant multiple times. You haven't exactly demonstrated good reading comprehension. Nor do I believe your personal attacks are justified. If you
by btilly 6y ago
I've read your rant multiple times. You haven't exactly demonstrated good reading comprehension. Nor do I believe your personal attacks are justified.
If you wish to argue that blacks do not score over a standard deviation lower on IQ tests, you're arguing against a mountain of evidence. If you wish to argue that this difference doesn't have pretty serious real-world consequences, you're arguing against another mountain of evidence.
You can choose to argue that IQ is culturally biased. I have to admit that culture affects people's IQ. But in turn IQ measures mental abilities that will help you do well in a technologically based society. So if particular cultural ideas help kids grow up with better IQs, those ideas are worth adopting. If specific family interventions have a positive impact, they are worth considering as well. And if you refuse to do that for kids, you bear a share of the responsibility for their future failures.
Seriously. IQ is a better predictor of your future success than your socioeconomic background. It is a better predictor than the color of your skin. The good side of that is that people are being judged more on their abilities than their background and race. That's good. But the bad side is that every year in which we see a large gap in SAT scores between blacks and whites, we are looking a future economic gap that will last decades.
As a society, we refuse to even think about that. Which means that we choose to continue the problem.
- BoorishBears 6y agoRead it again then, your entire comment is already answered to above. You can keep trying to switch direction like a weasel, but I could cut and paste the comment you replied to and it'd still be accurate because you didn't answer a single point brought up. Let's narrow the foxhole though, see if you can answer yes or no to a few simple questions: > The answer to the implicit question is simple and obvious. The stereotypes that proved accurate were often ones which people, for political reasons, wished to be inaccurate. > A simple example will demonstrate this. There is a stereotype that blacks are stupid. Your comment is attempting to support the stereotype "blacks are stupid" as "accurate but inconvenient". Yes? You must realize it's possible to talk about differences in education outcomes for different races without deciding to frame it in defense of the stereotype blacks are stupid, since you link to an article that does so. Yes? Yet you decided to use it support the stereotype "blacks are stupid". Yes? "Blacks are stupid" is a racist stereotype. Yes? You are supporting racist stereotypes on HN. Yes? You should should keep trying to double down on it? No.