From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 00:50:15 MDT
At 12:34 AM 10/1/02 EDT, you wrote:
>http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20021001.shtml
< Studies had shown that
females predominated among high-IQ blacks. One study
of blacks whose IQs were 140 and up found that there
were more than five times as many females as males at
these levels.
This is hard to explain by either heredity or environment,
as those terms are usually defined, since black males and
black females have the same ancestors and grow up in
the same homes. >
The essay is brief, but on the face of it the second paragraph is
astoundingly naive in its understanding of `environment', and revealingly
so. Quite obviously, IQ test scores reflect not only raw ability, training,
etc, but before all else *the willingness of the person being tested to do
as well as possible*.
`Yeah, right, I'll fill in this motherfucker's form. I just *lerrrve* to
ace this white test shit. Yeah, I snapped my pencil. Shut up, bitch, I'm
sleeping now, wake me when it's over.'
Damien Broderick
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