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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No what I’m pointing out is that people say Walls has better test scores than Banneker. I’m saying you have to consider that in light of Banneker’s 3x higher, 69 percent Black population, a population that underperforms on tests independent of everything else. They are likely educating very well but test scores aren’t the best way to see that. That’s the whole point. [/quote]

Eugenics has entered the discussion! Did you really just argue that black kids are worse at testing than white kids, all other factors being equal? 
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So… descriptively this is just a [b]statistical reality[/b]. Eugenics only enters in as a [b]causal mechanism[/b].

I, personally, believe that the disparity in test scores and achievement is a function of poverty and cultures that don’t really care about academic achievement. That is not a eugenics argument.

A eugenics argument would be that African Americans don’t get good test scores because they are genetically dumber. That argument is monstrous. [/quote]

Nothing you said is wrong. It's just nonresponsive. Your point (with which I, and data, agree) is that there is correlation of test scores by race. Your point (which I agree with) is that the disparity is a function of poverty and other societal factors. But when someone straight up argues that black kids test worse than white kids [i][u]when controlling for SES, etc[/u][/i], they aren't making the arguments you made.

Was this what they meant? Who knows. But it is what they wrote.   [/quote]

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