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You never heard about the trope of African people being called genetically inferior? That one is reverberating around time and space in a million variations. A
by bayesian_horse 5y ago
You never heard about the trope of African people being called genetically inferior? That one is reverberating around time and space in a million variations.
And if intelligence is genetic, well, you don't need to improve their public schools to help them achieve equal grades, do you?
- daenz 5y agoMy understanding of IQ is that its not fully heritable... an individual's potential is maximized by their environment, up to some limit. This alone gives a strong argument for improving public schools especially where students may be falling behind. So I am still not understanding the complacency aspect fully. I suppose a bigoted person could say "well those kids are dumb, they're expected to do bad." But the counter to that is, "they can do much better than they're doing," and the science would support it.