Why racial achievement gaps were so pronounced in affluent school districts is a puzzling question raised by the data.

Even in districts where where white students and their minority classmates had similar socioeconomic backgrounds, academic gaps persisted.

OH WHAT A PUZZLE!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30371875)

"(this was tested on fruit flies but we have every reason to believe hunans are the same) "

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LOL @ the fruit-fly analogue of IQ being at all applicable to studies of human intelligence. LOL @ this bullshit pseudoscience.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30373898)

of course there's a diversity of opinions behind any ideological position. but there's a reason that these opinions are placed under the same umbrella.

race realists make the claim that from correlations between race and intelligence, we can infer that race causes intelligence differences. if you're going to make this strong claim, you need to posit a plausible causal mechanism at the very least.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30373990)

I don't think it's even accurate to say that "race realists" think that race "causes" intelligence differences. Rather, I think it's fair to say that race realists think measured IQ differences among races are due, at least in large part, to inherent/genetic factors rather than external, environmental factors.

I think the plausible causal mechanism is that genes affect development of all sorts of physiological characteristics, the brain might also develop differently depending on your genes, people within a racial/ethnic group are likely to have a more similar genetic profile in comparison to those outside the group, and it might include those genes that affect brain development.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30374508)

inuit have a very similar genetic and phenotypic profile to east asians. unless there was very strong selective pressure specifically on intelligence genes in the short evolutionary timespan after these populations diverged, it's hard to explain their IQ differences genetically, and especially under the causal mechanism that you proposed (which assumes IQ differences are incidental to broader phenotypic variation).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30375679)

The communities in the district are traditional Eskimo villages which rely on subsistence activities such as hunting marine mammals and migratory birds, and gathering berries. Native dance and traditional crafts such as walrus ivory carving are still strong. At least four villages practice traditional whaling. There are few cash economy jobs, and the school is often the largest employer in each village."

no surprise these guys don't take to book learning.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30373983)

"their environment is why they don't take to booklearning" is what a non-race-realist would say to excuse dindunuffins.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30374001)

the burden of proof in science would be on proving there is a significant causal relationship.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30375640)

FUCKING LMAO THE FARCE OF WHITE GUILT NEVER EVER ENDS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30371896)

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30371916)

(shitlibs)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30371959)

hmmmm... I wonder what it could be...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30371909)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKCQ32dg2qY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30371935)

affirmative action policies have allowed dumber minorities to attain the same socioeconomic status as smarter whites. as a result, they do worse in schools when competing on a level playing field.

it does NOT, however, suggest that blacks are on average dumber than whites, or there is anything inherent in blackness that causes them to be dumb. it merely suggests that haphazard social engineering has elevated the wrong group of blacks ill equipped to compete with the top ranked whites who have been sorted by a more natural process that selects only for intelligence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30371982)

But there is no getting around the white/black score gaps and your argument that AA somehow magically found the wrong kids is lulzy as fck since AA generally benefits the higher scoring black kids who are somewhat in consideration for admission so if this is true then the implication is opposite of what you are trying to sell here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30373012)

Parents, you say? Makes you wonder if some of the traits might be heritable.

I guess we'll never know until sometime does a twins study.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30372081)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30372117)

also, need more data

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30372878)

but if its not there its not there and no amount of tiger parenting is going to change things. there are countless asian/indian kids who get regression to mean pwned even though their parents are high achieving and put unbearable pressure on them to succeed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30373052)

In the mean time, make sure to put all teachers through several "whiteness studies" courses

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30372911)

police shootings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30373967)

By FOX BUTTERFIELD

Published: September 28, 1997

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/28/weekinreview/punitive-damages-crime-keeps-on-falling-but-prisons-keep-on-filling.html

IT has become a comforting story: for five straight years, crime has been falling, led by a drop in murder.

So why is the number of inmates in prisons and jails around the nation still going up? Last year, it reached almost 1.7 million, up about seven percent a year since 1990.

The question is not merely a trick quiz, because the costs of running America's constantly expanding prison system -- now more than $30 billion a year -- have begun to impose an enormous burden on state governments.

Already, California and Florida spend more to incarcerate people than to educate their college-age populations. In California, where the number of prisoners has grown from 19,000 two decades ago to 150,000 today, the state now faces a crisis because it is caught between voters' refusal to approve more money for prison construction and an expected huge influx of inmates over the next few years as more and more tough sentencing laws take effect. The California Department of Corrections has projected that it will run out of space in barely more than two years. The North Carolina legislature recently adopted sentencing guidelines for judges based on a computer model showing how much bed space is available in the state's prisons, much like a hotel reservation system.

Growth Industry

Some poor towns, from Tupper Lake, N.Y., in the Adirondacks to Edgefield, S.C., are cashing in on the prison boom, having successfully competed to be the sites of new prisons, with all the jobs they bring, just as states have dueled with each other for new German or Japanese automobile factories. Since 1990 alone, the number of prison and jail guards nationwide has increased by about 30 percent, to more than 600,000.

Of course, the huge increase in the number of inmates has helped lower the crime rate by incapacitating more criminals behind bars, though there is no generally accepted way to measure the impact; crime rose sharply in the mid- and late 1980's, for example, even as the rate of imprisonment rose much faster.

But a growing number of criminologists say they are troubled by evidence that the spiraling growth of prisons is also causing unintended consequences that may actually contribute to increased crime as well as undermine families and inner-city neighborhoods.

Home and Back

Foremost among these developments, the experts say, is that the prison boom has created its own growth dynamic. The larger the number of prisoners, the bigger the number of people who will someday be released, and then, either because of their own criminal propensities or their experience behind bars, will be likely to commit new crimes and to be rearrested. A growing number of these former inmates are being reincarcerated for parole or probation violations, often a result of failing a urine test for drugs.

The number of criminals being sent to prison for the second or more time has increased steadily, rising to 35 percent of the total number of admissions in 1995 from 18 percent in 1980, said Allen J. Beck, chief of corrections statistics at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the statistical branch of the Justice Department.

As the number of prisoners continues to grow, some neighborhoods and cities feel dramatic effects. A study of Washington, D.C., issued last month found that half of black men there between the ages of 18 and 35 are under the control of the criminal justice system on any given day, either in prison or jail, or on probation.

Vanishing Stigma

''This suggests to me that we are weakening the role of the criminal justice system,'' said Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University, because it was meant to deter crime by stigmatizing people with the threat of imprisonment. ''But we have now locked up so many people that we have lost the stigmatizing effect.''

At the same time, Mr. Blumstein said, by imprisoning such a large number of people, especially young black males, ''we have disrupted families and built up strong connections between criminal groups in prison and on the street.''

''All this contributes to high rates of crime in inner-city communities,'' Mr. Blumstein said.

There are several reasons why the prison population is continuing to surge even as crime rates around the nation have fallen, but at their heart is an often misunderstood truth, said Franklin Zimring, director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. ''The change in the number of inmates tells us more about our feelings about crime and criminals'' and about changes in sentencing laws than it does about crime rates.

Sometimes the disparities in rates of imprisonment have no more apparent explanation. North Dakota and South Dakota, for instance, are similar in their social, economic and racial makeup and have similar crime rates. But while North Dakota has a prison incarceration rate of only 90 per 100,000 people, South Dakota imprisons 279 per 100,000.

Parole? No.

The prison population also continues to grow because sentences have increased for many crimes and parole boards have also become much more sensitive to the public's demand for harsher treatment of criminals. As a result, release rates of those prisoners eligible for parole have declined to 31.2 percent in 1995 from 37 percent in 1990, and inmates therefore are spending more of their sentences behind bars, Mr. Beck said.

Another key factor is that drug arrests are not counted in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual crime report. It includes crimes from murder to burglary, but not drug offenses, because they are not considered to have victims or likely to be reported to the police.

While other crimes have been declining, Mr. Beck said, the number of those arrested for drug offenses jumped 27 percent between 1990 and 1995. In fact, Mr. Blumstein said, criminals sentenced for drug offenses account for about half the growth in the prison population over the last 15 years.

John DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, said that in the past he believed most of those sentenced for drug offenses had also committed other crimes, often violent crimes, but new research he has conducted in New York State suggests that at least 25 percent of new inmates now are ''drug-only offenders,'' people who have never been charged with any other type of crime.

''I think what we are seeing is an increase in drug-only offenders, and this is unfortunate,'' Mr. DiIulio said.

Paying the Bills

California, with the largest number of prisoners, is facing the biggest challenge. In the last 20 years, California has built 21 new prisons but added only one university to what was once hailed as the world's best public university system. And while the share of the state budget going to the university system has fallen to 8 percent from 12.5 percent in 1990, the proportion for corrections has risen to 9.4 percent, up 4.5 percent, an amount that educators point out is identical to the loss in their funds. In the meantime, California's universities have had to lay off 10,000 employees, many of them professors, while in the same period the number of state prison guards has increased by 10,000.

''This is a crisis,'' said Barry Munitz, the chancellor of the California State University system. ''And the reason it is a crisis is that in California we capped government revenue with Prop 13, so every decision about spending is a tradeoff.''

''To me, you pay now for college, or you pay dramatically more later for prisons,'' for people who don't get an education and wind up committing crimes, said Mr. Munitz. ''The state sends us $6,000 per student,'' he pointed out, ''but it pays $34,000 a year for a prison inmate.''

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30377964)

LJL libs LJL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30378314)

Is there any scholarship on this? Totally pwns the shitlib narrative

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30373238)

Texas students, fourth-grade math, 2000 NAEP

White kids: Second in the nation (of 40 participating states)

Black kids: First in the nation (of 32 states)

Hispanic kids: Second in the nation (of 21 states)

Texas students, fourth-grade math, 1996 NAEP

White kids: First in the nation (of 43 participating states)

Black kids: First in the nation (of 35 states)

Hispanic kids: Second in the nation (of 25 states)

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2012/09/disaggregation-nation-gail-collins.html

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2012/09/disaggregation-nation-molly-ivins-made.html

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2012/09/disaggregation-nation-no-bogus-analysis.html

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2012/10/disaggregation-nation-collins-in.html

http://dailyhowler.blogspot.com/2012/10/disaggregation-nation-very-old-regional.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30374138)

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/04/29/mpr_news_presents

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30377775)

She also says certain kids are bad at long division due to low self-esteem, even though data has long shown that blacks have excellent self-esteem and Azns have low self-esteem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30377810)

But don't worry, having ethnic studies that focuses on other races will still HELP white people. Euro-American history is the only subject that hurts people, apparently.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30377816)

(she uses a lot of buzzwords)

She also hops on the lib hobby-horse that it's not fair that some school are able to focus on educating normals without sinking 40% of their budget into special ed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30377880)

Earlier there was a lot of chatter about how Minnesota's math test scores are declining and aren't world-class anymore. Nobody really had a good idea why that was.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30377919)

Now, a guy says that, while he's not a "crazy right-wing Christian," it may help if we got religious leaders involved somehow in public schools to motivate kids. Inshallah!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3209305&forum_id=2#30377971)