uhg! I am so tired of the OMG BLACKS AND SLAVERY!!! Seriously. Blacks enslaved black in Africa long before whites did ... and nearly every country has some history of slavery. For gods sake MY grandmother was a slave. A WHITE SLAVE LESS THAN 70 years ago! My IQ does not have anything to do w/ the fact that she was a slave.
I wasn't saying it was a competition. Relax. What I was saying was that my grandmother was poor, she was incredibly poor. She was forced into slavery and when WW II ended she fled. She fled and by herself she worked her way up, she learned 7 languages, her husband was a waiter all his life. She didn't live a privileged life. a few generations out our lifestyle is very different from hers, yes, and the fact that I may have grown up in a much more privileged atmosphere than her may very well play a big part in how I do on standardized tests. This is not about slavery, this is about cultural differences.
At first I kinda rolled my eyes but it did make me think about something related.
Let's take someone with "mild" autism, put them in mainstream schools since they can act "normal", and have them take an IQ test, then consider that they will probably never be independent because they scored a 63. Then lets have someone actually use their brain and give them an IQ test designed for individuals with autistic disorders and be amazed at a score of 156. It all depends on the test and the person.
I think standardized exams in general are crap, they rarely mean anything - I agree they are very much written to be answered by the writers progeny. Some of the smartest people I know would fail a generalized exam, but that is because they think very differently than "in the box" persons.
For instance - Savants are often people with severe forms of autism or worse diseases/handicaps... but they are absolutely brilliant, just in a very different way.
Of course a while after posting I finally notice that really isn't a good comparison to use. Of course there will be a pretty big difference between how the brain of someone with an autistic disorder and someone without one works, but not a big difference between a black individual and a white individual.
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For gods sake MY grandmother was a slave. A WHITE SLAVE LESS THAN 70 years ago!
My IQ does not have anything to do w/ the fact that she was a slave.
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What I was saying was that my grandmother was poor, she was incredibly poor. She was forced into slavery and when WW II ended she fled. She fled and by herself she worked her way up, she learned 7 languages, her husband was a waiter all his life. She didn't live a privileged life. a few generations out our lifestyle is very different from hers, yes, and the fact that I may have grown up in a much more privileged atmosphere than her may very well play a big part in how I do on standardized tests. This is not about slavery, this is about cultural differences.
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Let's take someone with "mild" autism, put them in mainstream schools since they can act "normal", and have them take an IQ test, then consider that they will probably never be independent because they scored a 63. Then lets have someone actually use their brain and give them an IQ test designed for individuals with autistic disorders and be amazed at a score of 156. It all depends on the test and the person.
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For instance - Savants are often people with severe forms of autism or worse diseases/handicaps... but they are absolutely brilliant, just in a very different way.
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