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Are you smarter than The Obama?

Are you smarter than The Obama?


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Peoples, Fagan & Drotar

The influence of race on 3-year-old children's performance on the Stanford-Binet: Fourth edition

This study examines the influence of race on performance on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition (SB:FE; Thorndike, Hagan, & Sattler, 1986) for European American and African American children matched on age, gender, birth order, and maternal education. A significant difference in mean IQ, favoring European American children, was found indicating that racial group differences in IQ could be demonstrated at 3 years of age. The magnitude of difference was approximately 1 SD. The African American children scored lower on each subtest administered. However, the degree of disparity in performance between the groups was disproportionately associated with particular subtests. The greater the subtest's loading on the first principal factor, the greater the disparity in scores between the two racial groups (r = .71). Thus, our findings confirm the Spearman hypothesis as early as 3 years of age.
 
Partly because rightly or wrongly, the clarion call of racism undermines anything else that's said. It's as much a tactic as it is a reality.

I agree.

Question: What's the definition of a racist?
Answer: Anyone beating a liberal in an argument.
 
...The African American children scored lower on each subtest administered....

#1. NO African-Americans are 100% African. They all have some European and even some Native-American genetics.

#2. Barack Obama is NOT African-American, as he is not the descendant of African slaves brought to America.

....so, how do we know the genes behind the African-American's poor IQ scores were not their white ones?
 
Considering that race is not a distinct biological category, intelligence is subjective and scientists generally hold that genetics don't significantly affect intelligence,

Wrong on all 3 points. 3 Strikes. Wow, that's impressive. Talking out of your ass is about as winning a strategy as the advice Dean Wormer gave Flounder:

 
#1. NO African-Americans are 100% African. They all have some European and even some Native-American genetics.

#2. Barack Obama is NOT African-American, as he is not the descendant of African slaves brought to America.

....so, how do we know the genes behind the African-American's poor IQ scores were not their white ones?

That's ****ing unbelievable! :lamo
 
#1. NO African-Americans are 100% African. They all have some European and even some Native-American genetics.

#2. Barack Obama is NOT African-American, as he is not the descendant of African slaves brought to America.

....so, how do we know the genes behind the African-American's poor IQ scores were not their white ones?

did you just come up with your own definition of African-American?
 
#1. NO African-Americans are 100% African. They all have some European and even some Native-American genetics.

#2. Barack Obama is NOT African-American, as he is not the descendant of African slaves brought to America.

Source?

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Source?

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Some black scholars have argued that the term "African-American" should refer strictly to the descendents of West or Central African slaves and free people of color who survived the slavery-era, and not the sons and daughters of black immigrants who lack that ancestry.[151] The argument being that grouping all blacks together regardless of their unique ancestral circumstances would inevitably deny the lingering effects of slavery with in the American slave descendent community, in addition to denying black immigrants recognition of their own unique ancestral backgrounds.

In the book The End of Blackness published by author Debra Dickerson, she warned against drawing favorable cultural implications from upwardly mobile black immigrants who are not the sons and daughters of American slavery and racial segregation. She used the political rise of President Barack Obama, who is the son of a Kenyan immigrant, a result of "Lumping us all together,"[152] Dickerson claimed it, "erases the significance of slavery and continuing racism while giving the appearance of progress." On the liberal website Salon Dickerson wrote, "African-American", in our political and social vocabulary, means those descended from West African slaves".

African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

looks like I'm not alone in my view.
 
Wrong on all 3 points. 3 Strikes. Wow, that's impressive. Talking out of your ass is about as winning a strategy as the advice Dean Wormer gave Flounder:
Actually, I'm perfectly correct on all three points:
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With the vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, ... it has become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups. [...] Given what we know about the capacity of normal humans to achieve and function within any culture, we conclude that present-day inequalities between so-called "racial" groups are not consequences of their biological inheritance but products of historical and contemporary social, economic, educational, and political circumstances.

Race (classification of humans) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Numerous definitions of and hypotheses about intelligence have been proposed since before the twentieth century, with no consensus reached by scholars. Within the discipline of psychology, various approaches to human intelligence have been adopted. The psychometric approach is especially familiar to the general public, as well as being the most researched and by far the most widely used in practical settings.[1]

Intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The official position of the American Anthropological Association is that intelligence cannot be biologically determined by race.[2] The American Psychological Association has said that while there are differences in average IQ between racial groups, and there is no conclusive evidence for environmental explanations, there is even less empirical support for a genetic interpretation, and no adequate explanation for the racial IQ gap is presently available.[3][4] According to a 1996 statement from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, although heredity influences behavior in individuals, it does not affect the ability of a population to function in any social setting, and all peoples "possess equal biological ability to assimilate any human culture" and "racist political doctrines find no foundation in scientific knowledge concerning modern or past human populations."[5]

Race and intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is all basic college-level information. It's interesting that you deny it. I think this page will be helpful for you.
 
I worked with alot of black people and I was around many daily all my life...and none of them played or talking about slavery until someone else mentioned it...a long time very close black friend i worked with said I was never a slave and I dont even think about that stuff...thats for the al sharptons to earn a living with..
I never met any blacks that harped on the slavery thing...none of them were slaves
 
My work is FULL of African immigrants who are engineers, PEs, etc. Much fewer African-Americans with long American history.

clearly, centuries of slavery and then segregation has had an effect on the abilities of African-Americans..but has NOT effected their brethren born in Africa.

could 500 years of slavery and segregation effect the genes of these people? doubt it. but it sure can effect their traditions, upbringing, culture, etc etc.

in high school I remember hearing about black kids insulting their black friends for doing well on tests. they were accused of trying to "be white".

this is a cultural thing, not a genetic thing. and it seems to not effect their native-African brethren.
 
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Having gone to a top 10 college and good private schools my entire life. I can tell you that many intelligent people are poor test takers and many not so intelligent people are good test takers. (Of course, intelligence is subjective though). I did both good and bad on tests from year to year. I would say standardized tests measure certain types of skills including patience - which I was lacking when I did worse.

that can be true-a junior phi beta kappa friend of mine barely cracked 600 on the LSAT because she sucked at taking tests. but its rare. The really bright people I knew at Yale, a Rhodes scholar suite mate (800) two founders of the federalist society (both 800s) etc a couple more Rhodes (780 and 800) , the current sterling professor of con law at Yale (793) tended to have really high scores
 
My work is FULL of African immigrants who are engineers, PEs, etc. Much very few African-Americans with long American history.

clearly, centuries of slavery and then segregation has had an effect on the abilities of African-Americans..but has NOT effected their brethren born in Africa.

could 500 years of slavery and segregation effect the genes of these people? doubt it. but it sure can effect their traditions, upbringing, etc etc.

South africa under apartheid knew slavery very well...many hate whites to this day there
 
My work is FULL of African immigrants who are engineers, PEs, etc. Much very few African-Americans with long American history.

clearly, centuries of slavery and then segregation has had an effect on the abilities of African-Americans..but has NOT effected their brethren born in Africa.

could 500 years of slavery and segregation effect the genes of these people? doubt it. but it sure can effect their traditions, upbringing, etc etc.

It didn't effect me all that adversely.

Using slavery is a lame ass excuse.
 
did you graduate from an Ivy League Law school with highest honors?

who are you referring to? Obama was Magna at Harvard, not summa. Obama could have been as low as 85 in a class of 550
 
Some black scholars have argued that the term "African-American" should refer strictly to the descendents of West or Central African slaves and free people of color who survived the slavery-era, and not the sons and daughters of black immigrants who lack that ancestry.[151] The argument being that grouping all blacks together regardless of their unique ancestral circumstances would inevitably deny the lingering effects of slavery with in the American slave descendent community, in addition to denying black immigrants recognition of their own unique ancestral backgrounds.

In the book The End of Blackness published by author Debra Dickerson, she warned against drawing favorable cultural implications from upwardly mobile black immigrants who are not the sons and daughters of American slavery and racial segregation. She used the political rise of President Barack Obama, who is the son of a Kenyan immigrant, a result of "Lumping us all together,"[152] Dickerson claimed it, "erases the significance of slavery and continuing racism while giving the appearance of progress." On the liberal website Salon Dickerson wrote, "African-American", in our political and social vocabulary, means those descended from West African slaves".

African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

looks like I'm not alone in my view.

It's a view, but it's not fact, not evidence. It's just others who share your viewpoint. When you make a statement that "NO African Americans are 100% black" I don't even know what that means... yet saying 100% of anything leaves you open to an obvious challenge since there are always exceptions.

Second, you totally made that BS up and then ran to Wiki to find anything that would support it. And lastly... "On the liberal website Salon ..." That's your source? Wiki that references Salon. Ugh...
 
Obama is clearly a very well-read individual who knows a lot about the law, history, etc etc.

Anyone who doubts Obama's intelligence is just being silly, jealous, or pathetically partisan.

And btw, Bush got into Yale as a legacy.....unlike Obama who had to earn & work his way in to Harvard.


Bush got into Yale because

1) he was a graduate of Andover and Andover sent most of its graduates to the Ivies, especially Yale

2) He was a legacy, the son of a man who was top in his class, a war hero and the captain of the baseball team.

Obama got into harvard law because he was black.
 
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