Funny how you ignore the posts that directly contradict yours... by explaining the bullshit 'science' you're quoting... and outlining why it's bullshit. Proves that I have a point and you don't like it.
You guys haven't disproven any of Matthew's major points. Blacks as a group are more violent and less intelligent. That isn't a racist slur, its a statement of measured fact. The only argument you guys have is that blacks would be smarter and less violent if they were some how treated better. Well, whites would be more successful if they were treated better as well. Not only that, but the dividend for improving conditions for poor and dull whites would be higher.
Prove what? His data is suspect and current statiscal research such as longitudinal studies show different results.
As far as intelligence its controversial and many time participating subjects may come bad backgrounds. If in fact there is some real significance then studies would include confounding variables such as environment, level of education of the parents, etc
I entertained this long enough though.
the problem is that many people just dont think any of this through, and confuse the different aspects.
I believe that intelligence is the biggest factor in human success. it is certianly not the only factor, just the most important, the one that explains life trajectories better than anything else we can attempt to measure.
all intelligence tests, for as long as tests have been around, find that blacks are roughly one standard deviation lower than whites. tens of millions of data points in IQ tests, SATs, ACT, aptitude tests, etc, etc. there is no doubt that blacks as a group have less of the brain processing skills that we consider the basic building blocks of 'intelligence'.
you can't argue the existence of the gap but you can argue the reason for it. genetics is the biggest factor in body physiology, which includes the brain and how it functions. it is certainly not the only factor, just the most important one which explains body type and development better than anything else we can measure.
genetics is the reason behind the different size and shape of brains, the speed of impulses and the number of connections, etc, etc. MRI has vastly improved the ability to measure the parts of the brain that are intimately involved with thought and reasoning. the correlation coefficients make other types of scientists weep with envy. blacks follow the same rules of genetic inheritance as any other group but one of the most interesting aspects is that (american) blacks follow a 'regression to the mean' back to IQ85, whereas whites regress towards IQ100.
let's talk about environment, which includes culture. at the time of conception every baby has a genetically controlled top potential for intelligence. environment only reduces this potential, it cannot improve it. none of us ever achieves our top potential. this is where the leftist talking points come in. extremely bad nutrition, or injury, or illness can physically reduce the ability of the brain to grow and function. I am unaware of any studies that show traumatic injuries and illness so prevelent in blacks that there is measurable decrease in brain function. nor are there sizable portions of the black population that live under the extreme famine conditions that stunt tissue growth, in fact I believe obesity is much more common but I fail to see the mechanism of brain insult from being fat.
next comes the bad schools, low expectations, racism excuses. a child may not learn as much in a poor school but how does that get into his brain and damage it? are low expectations the product of racism or simply a realistic adaptation to the child's abilities? again, what is the mechanism that reaches in and damages the kid's brain? intelligence is there whether you measure it or not. why do poor schools, poor parents, crummy surroundings seem to effect blacks so much more than whites? why do blacks under favourable conditions still underperform whites under bad conditions? is there some mysterious 'factor X' that only affects blacks? dont laugh, it has been looked for and even proposed as an excuse (with a straight face).
culture is an excuse for under performance caused by bad character BUT it is not is not an excuse for the physical differences in brain activity that correlate to intelligence levels.
to sum up - real difference in intelligence that can be measured either by test or by physiological differences. principally controlled by genetics that operate the same way in all races. poorly understood environmental component that defies logical correlation and a physical basis of explanation, which affects blacks all out of proportion to other races.
Occam's Razor is needed here to cut away the bullshit that is needed to turn reality into 'everybody is equal in every way'.
PS the Armed Forces only accepts recruits with IQ90+. they tried taking lower, once on purpose and once by accident, and it was a disaster. so IQ90 is pretty close to the cut off for a trainable competent human that can be expected to perform a standard technology based job. most blacks are unable to meet the requirements.