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any evidence of systematic academic discrimination? any evidence of equal abilities across all ethnic groups in Germany?

• bayesianhorse 12y ago
  It doesn't work like that. "Systematic academic discrimination" and "unequal abilities" are undistinguishable, so you can't really prove or disprove either. There were instances where children from Roma families were put into special education without any examination. It's impossible to determine genetic differences in intelligence between different ethnicities. Twin studies don't work for that. One study which compared children of German women and black US soldiers did not find a difference between those children and German children raised under similar circumstances. What we do know is that differences in ethnicities don't tend to hold up against other explanatory factors. We also know about the effect of subjective bias on student-teacher relationships, and a strong tendency of believing other ethnicities to be less intelligent.