Is it true that on average black people have lower I.Q s than whites.?
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Many things can be disputed about it. Firstly, IQ tests themselves are not accurate measures of intelligence. They only test certain skills and these skills are not exclusively innate. They can be taught. \nSecondly, it depends on social background, if a test asks about something the people taking the test have no knowledge about then they are unlikely to get the question wrong.\nThirdly, there are the social group of the people taking the test and bias. If he tested a group of white university students and compared the results with black prisoners or something then the results are going to be comprimised.\nMost importantly, the scientists who do these tests always have their own views and can easily mulnipulate the tests to get the results they want. There was a lecturer recently who said the black pupils in his class get lower marks than the white pupils. Proves nothing, he marks all their papers doesn't he?
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The BNP is racist, but that is what we are going to get until we stop looking at people as anything more than products of evolution.  When the press person goes and says that black people are less intelligent because of natural selection not being as rigorous in Africa as it is in the UK, the only real way to argue against him is to point out that all people are created in the image of God and that natural selection has not created superior races.  We are all in this as equals and our social institutions can make us all successful no matter what race we are.
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It’s not a question of colour but financial status. Poor people are more likely to steal. In the USA the rate of blacks is high among the poor. This can be the reason, I guess. Well, in my country many more white people steal.
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I don't think you've met very many black people.  There are plenty of white people that behave the same way you described.  I know educated, well-off black people.  You shouldn't stereotype.
837508
its not often white people. most of em r black, ok?
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The answer is that it is not ok. An average black person is as racist as a KKK member, and their language, attitudes, and actions are remarkably similar. Black people find strength and affirmation in their own racial identity by being offensive to people whom they perceive as the eternal aggressors, which is completely false. Africans, Arabs, and Asians pillaged and enslaved Europe without pity or cessation for hundreds of years.
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Yes. It's crazy of Blair to do that. I think low achievers in any group of people need a persecution-complex to wallow in and even though black slavery was not widespread on the Island of Britain certain blacks in Britain are jealous of the culture of self righteous bitterness that some black Americans immerse themslves in to deflect criticism of underachievement.
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I am Asian and i believe that black women are alot better then their white counterparts.  White women have this superiority complex about them.  They think they are better then everyone.  Black women are more down to earth and are really sweet.  White women are on the bottom of my list to date.  This is my honest opinion.
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I don't see a problem.  It's not like you're saying "all black athletes are better than white athletes" or "all white students are better than black students."  However, the conclusions you draw by looking at a small sample of athletes or a pile of numbers are somewhat faulty.  Here's why:  Yes, there are a lot more black athletes in the NBA than white athletes, but how many black hockey players do you know?  They are some of the strongest, fastest, toughest guys on the planet.  Also, it may be true that statistics show blacks as not scoring as high on aptitude tests than whites, but we have charter schools in Detroit that are 95% black students (or better) and these kids are scoring higher on the SAT/ACT than their white counterparts in the suburban Christian academies.  My point is this:  Be careful about making general comments about any given race, and try to look at the whole picture when using "evidence" to back up your claims.
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RUBBISH!\nJEALOUS OVER WHAT MAY I ASK?\nWhile whites do thave their pride, blacks have their pride also. Both races have earn a lot of achievements, so there is nothing of this sort.
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Judging by the spelling and the bigotry I see on yahoo answers, I would say that most of the people who post on here have an IQ way below 100.
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That bothers me to. I am white & honest to goodness most black people have been better to me than whites have. i am good to people that deserve it regardless of their race,age,size or sexual prefrences. But I also had a great Mother & Father that taught me that ! Alot of racism is from people not being taught that everyone is equal !!!
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I think that overall if you examined the demographics of the African-American you would find that their overall income level is low and that few have access to decent health insurance.  Combine a low income (which usually means an unhealthy diet) and no health insurance (which equates to lack of early detection for diseases such as prostate cancer)and you find a propensity for certain social groups to be more prone to certain diseases.  It's sad that in this rich nation there are people who are surviving without basic necessities.
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Logically, if you believe in myths you are less intelligent.\n\nI don't need a harvard study to prove that.\n\nAnd from all of the brilliant IQs found above, you can also conclude that the majority are not just less intelligent, but liars.
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Well, there's either something wrong with them, or something wrong with the test.  If there's something wrong with them, it may be their fault or not.\n\nWith math specifically, I think the fault is the school's.  Math has no cultural bias: 2+2=4 no matter where you go or who you are.  But teachers in public schools are largely union members, there on the basis of seniority, and may or may not be good at teaching.  Statistically, blacks rely more heavily on the public school system than whites.  Indeed, the biggest boom in private and parochial schools in this country came just after the most significant of the Supreme Court decisions regarding integration.  (They were largely white, of course.)  There are, however, excellent prep schools that are primarily black, and I'm sure more will be created in the future, as the black middle class recognizes the necessity and black teachers abandon the safety of the teachers union for the challenge involved.\n\nStandardized tests clearly do have a cultural bias, and that has been proved to be a bias against blacks.  Black people have a difficult time for a variety of reasons, some of their own doing and some due to external forces.  For example, many black people use a non-standard English, not because they cannot learn better, but because it is "cool."  That may be fine for their social life, but does not do well on standardized tests.  Many develop attitude problems wherein they experience real discrimination occasionally, and come to expect it all the time.  This is called "a chip on one's shoulder," and does more harm than good to the person holding the chip.  I think that metaphor was created because you cannot move naturally, and must hold yourself very stiffly, in order to keep a chip (of wood, presumably) balanced on your shoulder.\n\nIt is definitly true that in order to do well on standardized tests, a black American must learn about the white world's standards.  The tests are, almost exclusively, written by whites.  You could argue for improved test designs, but the fact is, you will be competing in a white world in most of the schools you attend, jobs you take, etc.  All very well and good to know and be proud of your own heritage, but you must decide for yourself whether isolation is worth the lost opportunities.\n\nOf course, it is quite possible to live very well keeping your distance from mass culture and the white-dominated institutions in this country, if that is your choice.  And if that is your choice, the standardized tests don't mean much to you anyway.
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lower or equal to her iq?
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Not all believe this:\nUK study claims men have higher average I.Q. than women\nhttp://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UK_study_claims_men_more_intelligent_then_women\n\nMen have higher IQ than women: study \nhttp://in.news.yahoo.com/050905/43/6000s.html\n\nBut I would certainly like to understand this better:\nSex and intelligence\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nSex and intelligence research investigates differences in the distributions of cognitive skills between men and women. This research employs experimental tests of cognitive ability, which take a variety of forms, including written tests like the SAT. Research focuses on differences in individual skills as well as overall differences in general cognitive ability, which is often called g. IQ tests, which are specially designed to measure cognitive ability, usually test a variety of skills.\n\nThe population of men and women differ on average in how well they perform on some of these skill tests, but do equally well on other tests. For example, women tend to score higher on certain verbal and memory test, whereas men tend to score higher on spacial tests, particularly mental spacial rotations.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_abilities_and_gender_issues