Posted on 05/20/2013 9:46:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Richwine was a victim of Political Correctness.
Jim DeMint: do the right thing and at least offer this man his job back. If he would take it, you could use the opportunity to educate the entire nation.
The Bell Curve once again.
Jason is a jerk, because, for the 100th time, there is no such thing as a Hispanic. The half-Indian Mexicans have nothing in common with half-Italian Argentineans, half-Negro Dominicans and the mix of ethnicities and races in Colombia and Venezuela.
Richwine is merely the latest truth-teller to be sacrificed at the altar of diversity. Pat Buchanan and John Derbyshire are also fairly recent sacrificees.
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” —George Orwell
Doesn’t matter that that’s the case, and that the more European Cubans, for example, score quite a bit better as a group than do Indian/native Latin Americans. He’s dealing with statistics that encompass such identified groups as a whole, including the group of immigrants from Latin America.
Jim DeMint ought to be ashamed of himself for not backing Richwine, and instead throwing him under the bus.
Thanks for posting this. It reminds me of the hysteria surrounding The Bell Curve. Discussions of IQ raises raw emotions among liberals almost as fast as abortion.
On the other hand and for statistical modeling reasons, I am skeptical as to the theoretical basis for using ethnicity in studies of IQ differences. Differences among broadly defined groups does not mean that the group is a viable explanatory variable even though the differences among groups are real. For example, men on average earn more than women, but gender hardly explains these substantial differences. I have not read the thesis yet, but I hope he has a pretty good discussion of what is and is not an explanatory variable.
It is a category used by the United States government. As such, it has available statistics. He used those statistics as representative of "country of origin," which they are. That doesn't make him a "jerk."
If, as you suggest, he had analyzed the date by specific ethnic group within that composite, the study would have been unaffordable and certainly not within the means of a master's thesis.
He seems to have left out a couple of facts: IQ is affected by inadequate nutrition, and kids that are read to early tend to have higher IQs. If the Hispanic immigrant kids (legal or illegal) aren’t getting adequate early nutrition, or having “intervention” (such as reading to them, etc.) from their parents or from teachers in early years, then yeah, their IQs will test lower. It doesn’t mean — necessarily — that the lower IQ will persist into the next generation.
Perhaps .12, about the IQ of a garter snake?
yet they openly oppose intellectual freedom.........not to worry Jason, many of the liberal arts college students are no more than pawns of life who cannot think and do not question anything in depth. Shallowness and having everything instantaneous with our igadgets has made us easy targets to our enemies. Many are sleep walking life in a cushy material fashion.
Everything in the study correlates to what anyone with even a modicum of common sense perceives everyday.
Reading or any learned knowledge has no bearing on real IQ.
IQ is the ability to understand, not a measure of what someone has been taught.
My daughter got her BS degree from McGill U in lefty rich Montreal Canada. I was stunned to hear they actually taught that different races have different IQs. They didnt think there was anything controversial about it. I cant imagine that being taught in the US. NOW who is DENYING Scientific fact!
Additionally, to the extent the above is found to be the case, I would guess that young urban dwellers have been negatively impacted to an exponentially greater extent than their rural counterparts.
The dirty secret that most minorities do not get is that dyed in the wool liberals think they are stupid and not able to stand on their own and thus patronize them with entitlements and pity. It is not conservatives that discriminate, we want them to have to opportunity we have to pay for the success and be proud of that achievement, it is the democrats.
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