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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sick of this "Good SAT scores are correlated to wealth" nonsense propagated by the "woke left brigade"

[b]Children of the richest black families ($200,000+ annual income) have SAT scores that are, on average, virtually equal to those of children of the poorest white families (sub-$20,000 annual income). Those same sub-$20k white children outscore, by 35 points, children of black families in the second-highest income bracket ($160k-$200k), and they outscore children of comparable poor black families (sub-$20k) by 180 points. For each income bracket, the black/white gap is around 150-180 points, or nearly one standard deviation. So basically, the lowest white group pretty much picks up where the highest black group leaves off, and achievement diverges from there
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[i]Source: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education[/i]
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Please also look at the large body of research on [b]stereotype threat[/b]--a longstanding body of research (starting at the University of Michigan) that consistently shows that  when black students are given a test they believe tests IQ (like SAT), they perform worse than white students.  However, if they are given the exact same test but told it measures effort or some other construct the gap largely disappears.  This effect has been shown to be extended in a variety of ways on a whole variety of stereotypes (e.g., white men jump lower on a test if they are reminded that whites don't jump as high as blacks, women perform worse if they are reminded of gender stereotypes about math, but not worse if they are told there are no differences, men perform worse on measures of reading/vocabulary if reminded of women's higher performance, than they do if they are not reminded or are told that men tend to do well on these kinds of tests, Asians perform better if they are told it is a test Asians tend to do well on etc.).  One explanation for this is that part of one's cognitive energy is spent managing emotions about stereotypes and therefore the full brain is not paying attention to the task.  Black students absorb so many racist messages that it is hard to approach any test of intelligence/academic skills without using some of their intelligence to tamp down negative emotions about it --  AND rigorous, double blind experiments consistently show this has impact on performance.   And this isn't even getting at the cultural biases inherent in any tests...[/quote]

Hahaha. The amount of BS that people will spew to explain the achievement gap that can be explained parsimoniously.

Let me quote Steven Pinker, who is no Steve Bannon

[b]Pinker: I think you’re wrong about IQ tests in general. They’ve been shown to predict (statistically, of course) a vast array of outcomes that one would guess require intelligence, including success at school, choice of intellectually demanding professions, income (in a modern economy), tenure and publications in academia, and other indicators, together with lower crime rates, lower infant mortality, lower rates of divorce, and other measures of well-being. [i]The idea that IQ tests don’t predict anything in the real world is one of the great myths of the intellectuals[/i].[/b]

The ugly truth is that

[i]Average African American IQ is 1SD below average white IQ, average Hispanic IQ a little less than 1SD below. Asian groups with the highest mean IQ are slightly higher than the average white IQ. [/i]

[b]Mean differences in group IQs are the most likely explanation for the academic achievement and score gap between racial groups.[/b] not some BS "stereo type effect" which has been conjured up because stating the above is so incendiary that "SOMETHING ELSE MUST BE INVENTED" to explain the obvious gap because fools get so caught up in group differences that they don't realize that these IQ differences and the achievement gap are about groups, not individuals. So there may be extremely smart Blacks and dumb as door knob Whites.

In the end, no matter what you do, it is extremely unlikely that these score gaps are going to go away. So all kinds of ridiculous explanations must be spun up to protect the ego and self-image of certain groups.

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