Ruined, because the left won’t face facts about race and IQ. By Eric S. Raymond.
We can’t fix what’s broken in American education until we acknowledge the problem.
It’s all downstream of maintaining a pretense that 17 out of 18 Black kids don’t have subnormal IQs.
We’ve sacrificed everything to this pretense:
* We’ve let most public schools degrade into violent hellholes because disciplining subnormal-IQ kids equals RAAACISM.
* We’ve distorted our entire economy because families need to have two incomes just to live in places where the public schools are not hellholes, and this tanks the birth rate.
* We’ve abandoned nurturing gifted children because almost none of them are Black and that would be UNFAIR.
* We’ve thrown away or degraded standardized testing so much that the conformance signal from a college degree is now table stakes for a non-shit job.
It’s not just a lost generation. We’re flushing American civilization down the tubes to avoid facing the reality of IQ distribution and having unapproved feelz about it.
Fair points about the consequences, but “17 out of 18” is exaggerated. More like a half:
That doesn’t sound right. Even using the loosest possible definition of subnormal as the bottom 50%, it would be about 5/6. Using a stricter definition of at least one standard deviation below the mean it would be about 1/2.
We spent nearly a year in sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, subsisting on canned tuna and matoke while administering thousands of Raven’s Progressive Matrices (RPM) IQ tests.
Our conclusion: the region’s average IQ is approximately 70, corresponding to the U.S. threshold for intellectual disability.
Paper: The average IQ of sub-Saharan Africans
Dennis Collins gets it right:
No need to “face the reality of IQ distribution” if we merely treat everyone as an individual and ignore race. The. End.
Bu there’s always some race-baiting politician who sees an advantage in tribalizing everything (e.g, The Voice in Australia)