At least on the low side. Those with low IQ tend to have low incomes, though high income does not correlate very well with IQ at all, meaning smart people may or may not do well in life. So since smoking correlates to low IQ and low IQ correlates to low income, it may be true that smoking correlates to low income as the author states in TFS.
So not only have you been shot, but several times? And as I recall from a previous post of yours, you have multiple advanced degrees from MIT, Yale, and others. And let me guess, you have a 147 IQ and a 9 inch penis?
I think you hit it spot on, it's not the curriculum, it's how they make it as boring as possible. I didn't enjoy math until I was actually out of public school and did that in my private life.
So you didn't get it until you were an adult, or at least not a kid anymore. That would seem to be consistent with what TFS is saying.
There are also plenty of tests that are based on numbers, association, memory, et al without any cultural context. These again result in the same lower average scores for blacks. A counter claim to these is that the blacks are not motivated to do well because of the environment in which they grew up, etc. So they did the tests again where you had to hit the button for the answer you guessed as fast as possible. Here again blacks scored lower, but had faster response times than whites. The next question is how they could be motivated in one split second and not in the next split second when they get the question wrong.
The Bell Curve addresses all these things and more with over a thousand sources. It evens predicts its own criticisms and addresses them. I've failed to see anything since then that counters its findings.
Also if you want to dip into almost racism, it is not inconceivable that during the hundreds of years in which Africans were taken as slaves that there was some selection of the more intelligent individuals (meaning the ones not taken were possibly less intelligent)
Yeah, because slave owners want bright slaves capable of questioning them and organizing resistance. I find it more likely the selection went the other way: for less intelligent and physically stronger individuals.
There are actually large modern cities in Africa, you insensitive clod. In this context, the "environment" is very similar to that in America. Also, Africans raised by whites and Africans raised by blacks have the same lower IQ. All these environmental and developmental factors have been ruled out in various studies and were reported in The Bell Curve almost 20 years ago. But as the authors predicted, most people would rather not talk about it or assume we are all identical and ignore the evidence. Nothing has changed in 20 years.
Much of it is almost certainly cultural and environmental.
Actually, IQ tests conducted in Africa by Africans result in an average score of 65. African Americans score about an 85, due mostly to difference in nutrition in growing up as you point out.
IQ has to heritable to some extent, or we would never have evolved from our ape-like ancestors to be smarter.
From not having to buy them at all. Users would buy them and sign up to install software and send back data. And not everyone uses a Mac, BTW. Shocking, I know.
As I posted elsewhere and as it states in TFA, total requests went down. It's amazing all the apologizing and hand wringing going on here. If this were about Bush, people would be frothing at the mouth.
No, I thought they meant it was submerged as well, as in using the earth's water and soil as a heatsink. Sort of like those geothermal heating/cooling units some houses have. The deep water is always 67 deg F, so it warms in the winter and cools in the summer. Massively more efficient than conventional oil heat and electric AC. For all the attention Al Gore received for Global Warming, it was President Bush was has one of these in his Crawford ranch.
The agencies cited exemptions at least 466,872 times in budget year 2009, compared with 312,683 times the previous year, the review found. Over the same period, the number of information requests declined by about 11 percent, from 493,610 requests in fiscal 2008 to 444,924 in 2009.
So total requests went down and the number of denials went up.
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RTF comics. That's obviously a lot easier for you, since reading my post was too difficult.
Yeah, thanks jackass. What I said doesn't contradict anything in TFS, so maybe you could try reading it again.
At least on the low side. Those with low IQ tend to have low incomes, though high income does not correlate very well with IQ at all, meaning smart people may or may not do well in life. So since smoking correlates to low IQ and low IQ correlates to low income, it may be true that smoking correlates to low income as the author states in TFS.
I drive a Jeep with an inline engine, you insensitive clod!
I Googled it on Yahoo. Apparently they don't want you to Topeka on Alta Vista.
Yeah, that was my reaction as well. That's way F'd up if this is an April Fool's Day prank.
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gbutler created a slight breach of etiquette by skipping the triple dare and going right for the throat.
Why do you have to answer a question with another question?
So not only have you been shot, but several times? And as I recall from a previous post of yours, you have multiple advanced degrees from MIT, Yale, and others. And let me guess, you have a 147 IQ and a 9 inch penis?
I think you hit it spot on, it's not the curriculum, it's how they make it as boring as possible. I didn't enjoy math until I was actually out of public school and did that in my private life.
So you didn't get it until you were an adult, or at least not a kid anymore. That would seem to be consistent with what TFS is saying.
Yeah, they thought of it. And they did it. But not for 500 quid.
There are also plenty of tests that are based on numbers, association, memory, et al without any cultural context. These again result in the same lower average scores for blacks. A counter claim to these is that the blacks are not motivated to do well because of the environment in which they grew up, etc. So they did the tests again where you had to hit the button for the answer you guessed as fast as possible. Here again blacks scored lower, but had faster response times than whites. The next question is how they could be motivated in one split second and not in the next split second when they get the question wrong.
The Bell Curve addresses all these things and more with over a thousand sources. It evens predicts its own criticisms and addresses them. I've failed to see anything since then that counters its findings.
Then why would a test created by an African and delivered to Africans in Africa result in a score of 65? What is the cultural problem there?
Also if you want to dip into almost racism, it is not inconceivable that during the hundreds of years in which Africans were taken as slaves that there was some selection of the more intelligent individuals (meaning the ones not taken were possibly less intelligent)
Yeah, because slave owners want bright slaves capable of questioning them and organizing resistance. I find it more likely the selection went the other way: for less intelligent and physically stronger individuals.
There are actually large modern cities in Africa, you insensitive clod. In this context, the "environment" is very similar to that in America. Also, Africans raised by whites and Africans raised by blacks have the same lower IQ. All these environmental and developmental factors have been ruled out in various studies and were reported in The Bell Curve almost 20 years ago. But as the authors predicted, most people would rather not talk about it or assume we are all identical and ignore the evidence. Nothing has changed in 20 years.
Much of it is almost certainly cultural and environmental.
Actually, IQ tests conducted in Africa by Africans result in an average score of 65. African Americans score about an 85, due mostly to difference in nutrition in growing up as you point out.
IQ has to heritable to some extent, or we would never have evolved from our ape-like ancestors to be smarter.
Read this on military.com this morning.
http://www.military.com/news/article/india-to-weaponize-worlds-hottest-chili.html
They apparently eat this because it tastes good. To each his own.
Its ancestors were phones. This thing is more evolved.
How is pointing out the simple fact that some people don't use Macs "Mac hate"?
From not having to buy them at all. Users would buy them and sign up to install software and send back data. And not everyone uses a Mac, BTW. Shocking, I know.
How often do you fly out of castles?
As I posted elsewhere and as it states in TFA, total requests went down. It's amazing all the apologizing and hand wringing going on here. If this were about Bush, people would be frothing at the mouth.
No, I thought they meant it was submerged as well, as in using the earth's water and soil as a heatsink. Sort of like those geothermal heating/cooling units some houses have. The deep water is always 67 deg F, so it warms in the winter and cools in the summer. Massively more efficient than conventional oil heat and electric AC. For all the attention Al Gore received for Global Warming, it was President Bush was has one of these in his Crawford ranch.
Anyway, this is much less interesting. Oh well.
The agencies cited exemptions at least 466,872 times in budget year 2009, compared with 312,683 times the previous year, the review found. Over the same period, the number of information requests declined by about 11 percent, from 493,610 requests in fiscal 2008 to 444,924 in 2009.
So total requests went down and the number of denials went up.