Nov 4th 2011, 20:42:24
That's a very nice anecdote there legion but unfortunately completely irrelevant. of course what I'm talking about AVERAGE score, I thought that was blatantly obvious. Clearly there will be exceptions. But it is a well documented fact that iq tests are racially biased.
I too had a less than privileged childhood as a Canadian aboriginal person and was bounced to 10 different foster homes as a child but my iq score is like 40 points higher than my peoples average. Does that mean that every one with a similar background would be able to have "good" iq scores regardless of how bad an upbringing they had? Ofcourse not, it would be stupid to think that and you can scream every insult at me you want until you're red in the face but it won't disprove the evidence that shows ON AVERAGE. Unless you are a middle class white kid your iq score probably won't be very high. And that has nothing to do with if you are "intelligent" or not.
I too had a less than privileged childhood as a Canadian aboriginal person and was bounced to 10 different foster homes as a child but my iq score is like 40 points higher than my peoples average. Does that mean that every one with a similar background would be able to have "good" iq scores regardless of how bad an upbringing they had? Ofcourse not, it would be stupid to think that and you can scream every insult at me you want until you're red in the face but it won't disprove the evidence that shows ON AVERAGE. Unless you are a middle class white kid your iq score probably won't be very high. And that has nothing to do with if you are "intelligent" or not.