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The 'SAT racial achievement gap'

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Has anyone ever tried to calculate the cost of trying to eliminate the 'SAT racial achievement gap' in America? I'm not referring just to the direct financial cost, massive as that undoubtedly is. But the indirect costs are almost unimaginable: Untold man-years trying to turn sows' ears into silk purses, wasted resources from large scale dropping out, denying worthy White students college places, dumbing down of academic standards...and on a more amorphous level the demotivation of non-black students. And having morons like this in positions of vital importance. One direct cost lies in financing an army of research trying to explain away the blindingly obvious.

The racial scoring gap on the SAT test has now become wider than has been the case for the past two decades. Many believe that in the years to come the gap may grow smaller, not because blacks are catching up to whites in educational achievement, but rather because the test makers are adding a writing component to the test that may be manipulated to lessen racial differences and therefore reduce public criticisms of the test.

Yup, despite almost half a century of this nonsense the gap remains as wide as it was at the beginning. And this despite (as the excerpt above coyly indicates) multiple attempts to skew the tests to favour black students. Now if you're in need of a laugh read the part of the report where they try to explain away the reasons for the continued disparities. It's Comedy Gold watching them tiptoe around the gigantic elephant in the room.


Well maybe in one sense. But to see university level researchers, masters of statistics, correlation, regressions and causalities carefully avoid the conclusions to which their research unequivocally points indicates a society with serious problems. It's similar to the way science was conducted under Stalin. I don't for one minute accept the integrity of these researchers and the environment in which they flourish. They know that low black IQ is the major explanation for the gap yet they refuse to even consider it.

There's a word for this: Prostitution. And it's costing us big-time.

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