>Different types of intelligence need to be measured in different ways. >Instead of having a Non-African create the 'intelligence' test for Africans, >they should have the African scientists create those tests.
Why? Well controlled studies have shown that there are wider differences within so-called racial groupings than between them. What it means is that there are little or no differences between people of different racial or ethnic backgrounds. Moreover when you use "culture-free" IQ tests, again there are no racial differences found. In grad school I did an analysis of the NORC 2000 and beyond dataset. This was a very detailed long term study of children going through the educational system in Chicago (about 40,000 in all). Basically they tracked them from kindergarten through the time the kids left the educational system on a very wide variety of measures, socio-economic standing, ethnic and racial background, educational achievement, family backgrounds, quite a few different intellectual measures, etc. In the model I devised we found out that race and poverty were so intertwined that they could not be readily unentangled. Beyond that the biggest predictors of how well the kids did in school was IQ, homework, and parental involvement. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245339 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
