Posted on Feb 11, 2018
California school science project that connected race and IQ is pulled after complaints
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Sgt Wayne Wood there you are keeping us at RP thinking and evaluating the world around us. This kid has a right to his free speech, free expression of his beliefs. Just as any researcher or scientist, he developed a hypothsis and devised a litmus test to prove or disprove it. The project should not have been taken down. I am Negroid, so this is not an ethnicity vote. In addition, following my own private research on another matter, I found that economics and availability to scholarly preparation plays a key role in who has the privilege to compete in a strong academic environment. I grew up as a child of sharecropper farmers and domestics. My people worked as domestics for the big farm owners. The big farm iwners had the money (economics) to purchase the state of the art books and study libraries (scholarly preparation materials) every 2 years to assist their kids with summer study and preparation for the coming academic year and tests. The sharecropper kids whose parents were given the older study materials faired exponentially above the sharecropper kids who did not have access to study materials. He proved his hypothesis. His project should remain on display. The world is moving forward and trying to silence someone's position is not going to change the world's course.
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Sgt Wayne Wood
PO3 Phyllis Maynard i don’t know how to give high fives or multiple thumbs up but let me say MAXIMUM RESPECT for intellect over politics.
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SMSgt Thor Merich
There are multiple examples where kids that are normally disadvantaged because of economics have excelled when given the proper environment. I don’t view it as a race thing but more an issue of culture, the will to learn, and the proper support system. In my case, I made a huge financial sacrifice to send my kids to a private high school. I wasn’t rich, but I chose to spend my money on my kids education instead of new cars and fancy houses. That sacrifice paid off years later as both of them have college degrees and successful careers. It was a choice I made. Society needs to do a better job of instilling education in all children. We will be much better for it down the line.
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While I have no idea how much validity there is/was in the kid's school science project, the context in which it came up again raises the issue of proportionality versus demonstrated ability. If one is going to argue that elite academic programs should have membership proportionate to ... race/ethnicity ... in the general population ... then should that not be true as well for athletic programs? Why is a competitive academic program 'racist' when it doesn't have membership proportionate to the demographics of the general population ... but a high school basketball team is not?
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SMSgt Thor Merich
Wait. You mean judge folks by ability like they do in sports? We can’t do that! We must be racially balanced. Unless you are taking about the NFL, NBA, or MLB. Then it’s ok to judge only on performance. It’s clearly a double standard.
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I have to wonder if it’s just a numbers issue? In other words, say the population of the school is 10 % African American, 30 % Hispanic, 40% white, 10 % Asian and 10% other. Do the ratios of students attending the school match the ratios of students in the program? If they do, then I don’t see the problem.
Also, no one answered the question from a scientific point. Was the hypothesis correct? Just because you don’t like the truth doesn’t mean it’s not true. In order to solve a problem we need to properly identify it first.
Also, no one answered the question from a scientific point. Was the hypothesis correct? Just because you don’t like the truth doesn’t mean it’s not true. In order to solve a problem we need to properly identify it first.
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