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Thursday, October 27, 2016

An Individual\'s IQ in Relation to Race

This clause intricately explained the functionality of Intelligence Quotient (IQ) sieves and explained their true statement. tally to an accidental disco very(prenominal) by social scientist throng Flynn, an individuals IQ increases by a vagabond of about 0.3 points per year, which results in the change magnitude intelligence of each generation. Upon narration this, I was very dislocated for I did non experience how intelligence simply increases with while. How feces generations simply get smarter without all other factors other than time? I hadnt read more than than two paragraphs yet my read/write head was already racing, devising questions and essay to create answers all at once. Already I was wondering(a) the accuracy of these IQ ladders. As I read on, I was quickly enraged when I read a fragment in the passage that rundle of a topic very sensitive to me. As believed by James Watson, From the perspective of an IQ fundamentalist, the fact that Africans score demean than Europeans on I.Q tests suggest an indelible cognitive stultification. Cognitive disability? My brain is yet to weave itself around that statement. According to a test created by Europeans and Americans (who do not have the slightest steer of African culture, making the test biased) Africans (who most likely know nothing of European and American culture) become labeled as illiterates with no hope of recovery. Already, the accuracy of I.Q tests has been disregarded in my book.\nI soon learn that my uncertainty in accuracy of that I.Q test is shared by James Flynn who believes that An I.Q. in other spoken language measures not so such(prenominal)(prenominal) how smart we are as how red-brick we are. I could touch my temperature stabilizing for this explained why non-Americans and Europeans such as Italians, Hispanics, and dearest to me: Africans were doing so poorly on the tests. They could not completely understand the tests and its questions because their home s were not as advanced and modern as the Europe or the Americas. When given tests that were ...

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