If the mean black American IQ is (best estimate based on a century’s worth of data) around 85, as compared to a mean white American IQ of 100, then if IQ is normally distributed (which it is), you will see a far greater percentage of blacks than whites in the range of IQs 75 or below, at which point we are close to the typical boundary for mild mental retardation. Typically criminals with IQs below 70 cannot be executed in the USA, I believe.
That parsimoniously explains the greater diagnostic rates for blacks when it comes to ‘Intellectual disability’.
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I've written about this before . There are other factors than genetics that play a role in how well certain people-groups perform on standardized tests.
Even if there were a marked difference between the IQs of blacks and whites, however, that should have no bearing whatsoever on how individuals are treated. After all, I don't see these so called IQ realists declaring Asians the übermenschen because they score on average higher than whites.
This clown is using The Bell Curve as his source material.
Side by side though, Negros and whites of the same class, tend to have similar IQs
Your new PM's choice of Chancellor of the Exchequer in last week's cabinet reshuffle.
So either Rishi Sunak MP has the IQ to do that job: ergo black Americans are superior to a mean white like you, or Bozo really is a clown.
Choose one, Andiepoos.
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Demonic Cummings I like the way you think; as would our resident wordsmith @Malingspann . b^_^d
PROTIP for everyone: Bozo the Clown borrowing £100 billion to 'invest' in Britain is a policy which came from Cummings: who in turn stole that idea from Jeremy Corbyn.
So, o Trumptards: still think that supporting an orange... thing who loves not only an equally mad-haired buffoon who has re-nationalised Northern Rail, nay, loves the Conservative PM who not only agreed with Clement Attlee instituting the National Health Service but had laid down plans for such during WWII is such a good idea...?!
Not this shit again. I seriously lack the patience for anyone anymore who tries to use IQ tests as a way to prove that blacks or any other group are ‘dumber’ and deserve their lot in life.
I think he’s right about us not executing the idiots, which is the only reason the churches & the republican party still exist.
The only people who constantly fall back on the old IQ excuse are trying to mask a pitifully low IQ. Classic compensation, mixed in with classic racism.
Wow, that is the worst piece of obscurantist prose I have seen since Chateau Heartiste. Let me translate into simple English:
The average IQ measured in African Americans is lower than that of white Americans. This means that more blacks are in the IQ ramge that counts as mildly intellectually disabled. Intellectually disabled people cannot be executed in the USA.
And with this, I have explained, in a way that requires the least additional assumptions, why black men are more likely to be diagnosed with intellectual disability.
No, you explained nothing, let alone parsimoniously. Paragraph 1 is pretty much the same as Paragraph 2, just with mmore Big Words.
*horrible suspicion dawning*
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