A bit down but then i had a couple of original thoughts this morning and it fucked me up for the day.
Race and intelligence
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A bit down but then i had a couple of original thoughts this morning and it fucked me up for the day.
FridgeMagnet
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I smack myself in the head with a brick every now and then - cheers me right up.
weltweit
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Just out of curiosity, I Google image searched 'American Family' . . .
(you'll know what I'm on about if you watched the programme)
And, did you find a white middle class family with 2.4 kids ?
discokermit
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no seriously. i reckon most people could be trained up to most jobs. there are far more important traits than intelligence.
And now my keyboard is full of tea - thanks for that.
"if i could be for only an hour,
if i could be for an hour everyday,
if i could be for just one little hour,
cute! cute! in a stupid ass way"
jaques brel said that and he was a fucking genius!
A million blind people agree
weltweit
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I thought Rageh Omar made quite a good program.
He had to swallow hard when interviewing some people with very unpleasent views.
Toward the end he met people with more progressive views.
But the end of the program he returned to the issue, does it matter if it is in fact to do with environmental issues that black children are doing worse in IQ tests (and in school) than white or asian kids, when the basic problem is that they are and that needs addressing.
He had to swallow hard when interviewing some people with very unpleasent views.
Toward the end he met people with more progressive views.
But the end of the program he returned to the issue, does it matter if it is in fact to do with environmental issues that black children are doing worse in IQ tests (and in school) than white or asian kids, when the basic problem is that they are and that needs addressing.
discokermit
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i had chips for my dinner every day from the age of six to the age of sixteen. never did me any harm.Back in the good old days we had endemic malnourishment to keep us thick and happy
miss minnie
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out of 20 images on the first page of results...Just out of curiosity, I Google image searched 'American Family' . . .
(you'll know what I'm on about if you watched the programme)
7 african american families
3 native american families
1 estonian family
8 white american families
1 picture of marilyn manson
James Flynn's book What is Intelligence? is well worth reading.
Richard Lynn did a passable Hannibal Lecter impersonation, but Omar could have picked him up on a few things, such as his claim in IQ and the Wealth of Nations that Serbs have an average IQ around 90, which is lower than that for black British teenage cohorts who have been tested fairly recently.
Nesbit was good, and Rose waffled about defining race, which was fairly irrelevant anyway - the underlying issue not really resolved one way or another if it's shown that human genetic differences are clinal or gradient-like rather than typological.
On the whole the program made a pretty good fist of trying to address several different issues in the space of an hour and twenty minutes.
Richard Lynn did a passable Hannibal Lecter impersonation, but Omar could have picked him up on a few things, such as his claim in IQ and the Wealth of Nations that Serbs have an average IQ around 90, which is lower than that for black British teenage cohorts who have been tested fairly recently.
Nesbit was good, and Rose waffled about defining race, which was fairly irrelevant anyway - the underlying issue not really resolved one way or another if it's shown that human genetic differences are clinal or gradient-like rather than typological.
On the whole the program made a pretty good fist of trying to address several different issues in the space of an hour and twenty minutes.
i had chips for my dinner every day from the age of six to the age of sixteen. never did me any harm.
I can just imagine you in those leg braces.
My Uncle John had Rickets, but that was a bit common so his mam always insisted it was Polio.
Ever met any black, white or asian 'kids'?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You had a pie every day for 15 years! (your own words)
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Haha, not quite, but Im glad your interest in my dietary habits has returned
I just have health concerns about my fav posters. I care too much.
You're like one of those 'women that love too much'.
Six stone I've lost this year and I still look like Uncle Buck
You're like one of those 'women that love too much'.
Six stone I've lost this year and I still look like Uncle Buck
Everyone loved Candy
weltweit
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Sure, why what is your point?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You're like one of those 'women that love too much'.
Six stone I've lost this year and I still look like Uncle Buck
That hitler. Have you really lost 6 stone?
You sound like you've only just found out the different exam performances between black/white/asian, etc
Yup. I'm gonna give up smoking next.
Piece of piss that, chuck it all in the bin.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Wow, that's brilliant (in fact, that's amazing). Got any tips?
discokermit
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what about weed? who am i gonna sit and smoke with at parties?
weltweit
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Ive studied with Nigerians, Arabs, Chinese, etc .. I did not correlate our results by race no ...
So perhaps it is news to me.
Eat really really healthily weekdays, do what you want at weekends - working for me.
what about weed? who am i gonna sit and smoke with at parties?
The only time I smoke weed is when i see you! I'm going to be annoyingly smug telling you how much healthier I feel etc
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You cycling/walking to work?
discokermit
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you selfish bastard.
Walking more, but I aint been on a bike since 1989!
Need to do more exercise, I swam a lot as a kid, should take that up again.
