[lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt'

Sandy Harris sandyinchina at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 18:52:40 PDT 2007


On 10/30/07, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Just recently James Watson came out again saying
> blacks have lower IQs than whites. It just never
> stops, that sort of garbage.

That's because it is true, at least for the standard tests applied to US school kids.

There's room for a lot of criticism either of the tests for cultural bias and general meaninglessness, or of the educational system for shortchanging blacks and other groups, but it is silly to deny the data.

-- Sandy Harris, Nanjing, China



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