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

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Wed Oct 31 08:02:54 PDT 2007



> 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

^^^^^ CB: Strictly speaking it's not precisely true that "blacks have lower IQs than whites" , 'cause some blacks have higher IQ's than some whites.



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