[funkydee]

(Original post by Hopple)
Is there reason to worry if all [insert skin colour here] people failed GCSE maths and english, but all [insert other skin colour here] people got A*s? The same principle applies here, there's a difference that is undesirable which may have an identifiable and fixable cause.

but failing gcse's could be due to the school?

and is the difference really that distinct?

[Hopple]

(Original post by funkydee)
but failing gcse's could be due to the school?

and is the difference really that distinct?

No, it isn't that distinct, but it's the same principle. And yes, different schools are a variable that could be at least partially to blame.

[Newerfield]

(Original post by ArthurWinterthurII)
We still have this nonsense circulating in mainstream culture. Personally, I myself, like a few others, come from a culture and background that differs sharply with where a large majority of 'black' people in the West come from - hence why such statements that 'blacks have a lower IQ than whites' seems silly and like child's play to me etc. But, clearly some believe it to be genetically and inherently true and whatnot.

So, in an effort to see where this eagerness to make it true stems from, a few simply questions and premises are thrown out:

So, let us assume that not only do 'blacks have a lower IQ than whites', but that it is seemingly genetic and inherent.

Now, having established this, what do we do now? Do we take the black children out of schools? Not bother interviewing the blacks for top jobs? Give the blacks preferential treatment in our criminal courts? Or rather, round them up? Build concentration camps maybe? Or send every last black out of the West?

Clearly, what I'm trying to ask (through asking such offensive and direct questions) is that - what do such theories and studies about the link between race and intelligence seek to prove? Does it rather seek to further sever racial relations; further undermine any academic achievement of the young 'black' people? Encourage an inferiority complex in 'blacks'?

What do you think?

(ALERT, ALERT: Clearly, many of you replying have low IQs (lol, a pun, calm down). This post is laden with sarcasm. I personally do not believe any of the examples mentioned in the post. I even take the statement 'Blacks have a lower IQ than whites' with a pinch of salt much like I would take the statement 'First-year university students go out more than the general population' with a pinch of salt.)

Yeah, for people who consider this area of 'research' important, those solutions you've given are pretty much it.

They would frame it, though, as needing to 'direct social policy so as to make it more accurately reflect the needs and demands of the target group'.

I haven't got a bloody clue what they expect us to take that as meaning, aside from what you've said, tbh.

[ArthurWinterthurII]

(Original post by Newerfield)
Yeah, for people who consider this area of 'research' important, those solutions you've given are pretty much it.

They would frame it, though, as needing to 'direct social policy so as to make it more accurately reflect the needs and demands of the target group'.

I haven't got a bloody clue what they expect us to take that as meaning, aside from what you've said, tbh.

Yes, it's ridiculous. There must clearly be some sort of agenda here on the part of the 'researchers' - effecting a superiority complex in themselves is high on that.

[Newerfield]

(Original post by ArthurWinterthurII)
Yes, it's ridiculous. There must clearly be some sort of agenda here on the part of the 'researchers' - effecting a superiority complex in themselves is high on that.

I don't really know how to take what you've written. Sincerity and sarcasm are difficult things to detect on the internet :-/

Are you suggesting that the things the OP suggested would be done are ludicrous?

[HomoSapiensSap]

(Original post by Newerfield)
I don't really know how to take what you've written. Sincerity and sarcasm are difficult things to detect on the internet :-/

Are you suggesting that the things the OP suggested would be done are ludicrous?

If you look closely (and use that brain that is supposedly the result of millions of years of evolution) you should find that Mr Winterthur is in fact the OP.

[Newerfield]

(Original post by HomoSapiensSap)
If you look closely (and use that brain that is supposedly the result of millions of years of evolution) you should find that Mr Winterthur is in fact the OP.

Ah, sorry I am new to this. I thought 'Thread Starter' was a moniker that you were given for starting loads of threads on the forums =D