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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Won't happen because the racial makeup wouldn't match the city.[/quote]

Because only rich white kids are "truly gifted" :roll: 
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In the US as a whole whites score about 15 points higher on IQ tests than blacks; don't bother to get upset, it's a well known and established fact.  Based on NAEP scores, the black white gap in DC is signicantly larger than any state; the blacks in DC tend to score significantly below blacks in the US in general, and whites significantly above.  If you used an IQ test to determine entry then yes, it would be almost completely white if a significant number of the white families in DC went public instead of private.[/quote]

You've posted this before. Please tell me who takes their kids to receive IQ testing?  And who's administering these test?   I've never found the need to have my DC testing and they are doing great academically. I'm not being snarky, but I honestly don't know of very many Black or Hispanic people paying to have their DC tested for IQ. Is it a white thing?  [/quote]

This isn't gathered by random IQ testing, but by testing large cohorts of kids.  IQ testing companies have representative population samples to norm tests.  A good summary from Wikipedia:

"Rushton & Jensen (2005) wrote that, in the United States, self-identified blacks and whites have been the subjects of the greatest number of studies. They stated that the black-white IQ difference is about 15 to 18 points or 1 to 1.1 standard deviations (SDs), which implies that between 11 and 16 percent of the black population have an IQ above 100 (the general population median). According to Arthur Jensen and J. Philippe Rushton the black-white IQ difference is largest on those components of IQ tests that are claimed best to represent the general intelligence factor g.[46] The 1996 APA report "Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns" and the 1994 editorial statement "Mainstream Science on Intelligence" gave more or less similar estimates.[47][48] Roth et al. (2001), in a review of the results of a total of 6,246,729 participants on other tests of cognitive ability or aptitude, found a difference in mean IQ scores between blacks and whites of 1.1 SD. Consistent results were found for college and university application tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (N = 2.4 million) and Graduate Record Examination (N = 2.3 million), as well as for tests of job applicants in corporate sections (N = 0.5 million) and in the military (N = 0.4 million).[49]"
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