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Posted by JayMan on Tue Apr 5 02:25:23 2011, in response to Re: Why Does Everything Suck?, posted by SMAZ on Tue Apr 5 01:07:28 2011. Actually, probably not. Black children from families earning considerably more than white families score lower on tests. Also, the NAEP scores (a partial proxy for IQ) from the impoverished white states show even the worst average whites scores are better than most average black scores.It's important to remember that poverty isn't just a function of IQ, it's function of what's available. Though I suspect that the Scotch-Irish of Appalachia and their descendants in the South have lower IQ's than other white Americans (considering the average IQ of Scotland and Ireland is about 93), that's likely not enough to explain the abject poverty found in places like West Virginia, Kentucky or Tennessee. The destruction of the coal industry, which is the economic base for these places, also is at play. If one reads Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers (ignoring his attempt to marginalize IQ, talent, and race differences in such) success is a function of opportunity and luck as well as talent and temperament. A poor white person, especially one coming from somewhere that is historically poor, may be cut off from opportunities to advance. |
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