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[QUOTE]Originally posted by fawal: [QB] [QUOTE]http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nisbett/racegen.pdf Also see Whatbox' post.. [/QUOTE]I have already addressed that Tizard study in one of my earlier posts above. [QUOTE]They proved a long time ago that tests like SAT were biased with such experiments as the the urban SAT and PBS' secrets of the SAT. This is only reinforced by Flynn's latest work showing a closing of the gap as he used standardized test scores, including AFQT. [/QUOTE]You know I find it really quite surprising that as a black person yourself, that you would use the tired and lame excuse put forward by many white liberals that the SATs somehow are racist and culturally biased, because basically what they are saying is that black people aren't capable of learning at the same level that other people are. Vocabulary, Writing Ability, Grammar, Reading Comprehension, Improving Sentences, Logical Reasoning, Spatial Inferences, Data Interpretation, Arithmetic, and Basic Algebra comprise 95% of the SAT. Are you then conceding to the idea that blacks in general are lacking as far as these skills are concerned? Moreover in 2005 the College Board has completely revised the old SAT releasing a newer version that is now racially and socioeconomically blind (no longer do words like "regatta" or "wicket" appear) [URL=http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/cbsenior/yr2007/tables/10.pdf]but still the trends remain[/URL]: asians first followed by whites and other minorities with blacks dead last. Why is this? I have already provided you with links that deal with Linda Gottfredson's rebuttal to Flynn's hypothesis. Furthermore, the Flynn Effect rests on the supposition that IQ is entirely environmental, if you read the studies that I have posted above in bold you will quickly see that this is not in keeping with the most recent neurobiological findings. [QUOTE]Your logic is flawed. Black immigrants in no way represent an elite class anymore than any other immigrant population and many of these people easily outperform immigrant Europeans. The variables are the same, unlike your selected natural-born elite class Americans. Whenever the playing field is level there always seems to be a slight advantage for Blacks and this kind of spin can't mitigate this fact since the data is clear. [/QUOTE]Sunjata, considering that you are so enamored with Africa, I am quite sure that you are well aware that the continent is suffering from a terrible endemic of Brain Drain. So don't play dumb. :o But just in case you somehow managed to forget, allow me to jog your memory: [URL=http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol17no2/172brain.htm]Reversing Africa's 'brain drain' New initiatives tap skills of African expatriates [/URL] [URL=http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-71249-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html]Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa [/URL] [URL=http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/22/africa.brain.drain/]Fighting Africa's brain drain [/URL] [URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1605242.stm]Brain drain costs Africa billions [/URL] [URL=http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/africaneducation/africa-brain-drain.html]Africa Brain Drain: Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources[/URL] [URL=http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20090626122522939]AFRICA: Scientists call for brain drain help [/URL] [URL=http://www.lincei.it/files/dichiarazioni/NASAC_statement_brain_drain_Africa.pdf]Brain Drain in Africa[/URL] And as far as that statement about how "whenever the playing field is level there always seems to be a slight advantage for blacks," I drew reference to John Ogbu's final book "Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement" in one of my posts above. In that book, the playing field was level and still the blacks underperformed. :rolleyes: [QUOTE] [URL=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331949,00.html]Whites Genetically Weaker than Blacks, Study Finds[/URL] [/QUOTE]Hardly! [URL=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7181/full/nature06611.html]Read the entire source![/URL] Nowhere in that study does it state that blacks are genetically predisposed to "weeding out" harmful mutations. Incidentally though, it should be noted that recent science has shown that many "negative" mutations that result in several genetic diseases such as Tay-Sachs, Canavan disease, Gaucher's disease, Niemann-Pick disease, Mucolipidosis type IV, and other lipid storage disorders and sphingolipid diseases, do in fact correlate with high intelligence, and others are known to cause neurons to grow an increased number of connections to neighboring neurons(these diseases are found predominantly amongst Ashkenazic Jewish populations). See: [URL=http://homepage.mac.com/harpend/.Public/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf]Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence [/URL] [URL=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0718_050718_ashkenazim.html]Did Discrimination Enhance Intelligence of Jews? [/URL] [URL=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6037708729636407580&ei=FidVStfKK8zrlAf85-GoDg&q=jews+intelligence&hl=en]Steven Pinker - Jews, Genes and Intelligence [/URL] [URL=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-jewish-gene-for-intelli]A Jewish Gene for Intelligence? [/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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