>Moreover when you use "culture-free" IQ tests, again there are no racial >differences found.
Who determines that the test is culture-free? I had no idea that the SAT was culture based until someone had to demonstrate the concept to me. With that kind of 'unknowing', it would be easy for the creator of a test to, not knowingly, create a 'bias' test. William -- William E. Seiter Have you ever read a book that changed your life? Go to: www.winninginthemargins.com Enter passkey: goldengrove Web Developer http://William.Seiter.com -----Original Message----- From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:35 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: AYFKM? >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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:245346 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
