It's because the test is culturally biased
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I hear ya. Sludge is a fucking eyetie. They're white . . . allegedly.creepycoug said:So the question is, is this due to all the husbandless whoring mothers of black and latino kids or is it Charles Murray's fault? It's a big question, because this generation may be the last one that'll get away with not being good at math and still live well. Keep an eye on AI.
Separate question: does the Brookings break down the "white" category by any other categories? Yes, I'm too lazy to look. Reason I ask is "white" is mighty broad. I'm as white as I'm guessing you are. I'm also latino. Jews are white. People of German heritage are white. I don't think good math DNA is equally spread around the world. I know this is data; but I also know a lot of white people with limited intellectual abilities. I wonder what it looks like when you differentiate among whitey. Seems racist to lump all of whitey into one white. -
I purposefully didn't and dont' dictate politics to them. We argue, and I used to win a lot, but I didn't raise them with doctrine, other than perhaps markets. I want my kids to be independent thinkers, and btw, there are plenty of right wingers who are also knee-jerkers, but arguably more on the left today. The thing I told them they had to avoid if they expected any respeck from me was becoming sloganeering dim-wits like a lot of their friends. I don't care what they believe if they can back it up and hold their own.WestlinnDuck said:
We have lots of upper middle class white school kids around here and they are often on TV "spontaneously" protesting for the whole gamut of woke ideas, BLM, CRT, taking away gun rights, opposing armed SRO cops in school and global warming. They are not intellectually curious, they are just indoctrinated sheep.Fire_Marshall_Bill said:The scamdemic only widened the achievement gap between the poor and the rich kids.
The poor usually got a $150 laptop or something, but who knows if they even had good Wifi to do their work at home.
The upper middle class kids probably had at least one parent working from home who could check up on them easily. Plus they can afford tutors.
As an aside, we raised them with very little TV. There was a brilliant philosopher I was exposed to in Savery Hall who was writing at the time that the motion picture was invented. Now, put yourself in that world. You've literally never seen a moving image. Even given his limited exposure to this new thing, he understood it perfectly and thus viewed it skeptically; and he proffered quite prophetically that it would be used to great effect for molding opinions and, in skilled hands, serve as brilliant propaganda. The reason, he theorized, is that your brain can't keep up with the frames and you are limited in your ability to reflect critically on what you're looking, as compared to thinking about a picture or a painting. The movie doesn't let you do that, and it sets you up beautifully for the selected still of a hotdog and soda, and before you know it you're at the counter. I took this to heart at the time and raised readers. All of them have been kick ass students, like me. And on the importance of having a father around, guess who was the hard ass who enforced this? I'll give you a hint: it wasn't my wife.
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