The Truth
about Ruth
[QUOTE="The Truth, post: 1987159826, member: 28881 Do I know that different ethnicities have different inherent potentials to develop intelligence? No, I don't know that and neither does anyone else.
And you base this rather sweeping statement on what? The likes of Doctor Murray who have devoted tears of study on the subject are deemed wrong with a few taps of your keyboard, LOL. Impressive that you can dismantle such a major work so easily [/QUOTE]
I base it on logic.
You find problems with what I wrote but you're okay with GodEmperorMorrissey?
I think that is the real issue.
Basic logic will tell you that no one knows the answer to that question. We do not know what the results would be if the tests were impartial because we do not live in an impartial world.
Are you saying that people of different ethnicities will always score differently on standardized tests?
I'm basing it on logic.
I don't know. You don't know. It's impossible to know.
I've been very fair and even introduced things into the discussion that helped your side.
At some point a couple of pages ago you thought you had a good point with "Yes or no, do you believe intelligence can be linked to ethnicity." I wrote two long posts in response and you called one word salad and then dismissed the other one summing it up as "you don't know?"
No. I'm not here to claim to know things. I'm not the one making assertions and I'm not responsible for the fact that you don't want to respond to the points I made. You could ask for clarification or pick out one part and discuss that but you choose to dismiss it. That's not my fault or my problem.
And God EmperorMorrissey has already had a couple of meltdowns, called inconvenient posts "off topic" and then started talking about how black people had it better in the 50's. You seem okay with all that.
Do you understand that the person that makes the assertion is the one that has to provide an argument? The one that has to prove their statement? We saw that you agreed with him but when I responded to your post you said that you wrote it in thirty seconds and that I got the gist of what you meant.
I think I do get the gist.
And you're more intelligent than GodEmperorMorrissey, more rational, and have the ability to sound more reasoned. But you're no more interested in having a real exchange of ideas. That's normal and I'm not trying to make any personal remarks. The reason I talked about the things we're taught in school is because I know that you live in a racist country, same as I do, and I was trying to talk about the differences between what we've been taught historically as children in schools and what we might have learned later, about the very reason these culturally based intelligence tests exist.
This is all rehash now but the point is, if I wanted to be dishonest and play word games I think I would be capable of doing that. I don't feel I need to. I'm really trying to have a discussion and not win an argument. But this whole thing went down the tubes a couple of pages back and it's just too obvious that you're being dishonest here in pretending you care about the facts when I am the one you have an issue with.
You would be a good speaker for the people who are really racist and can't say what they want to so cleverly. That's why you like those alt-right guys. They know how to appeal to the real cross burners but they're clever about how they say it. You could do that. And if we debated in front of a group like that you could even win by pointing to a book and saying "I suppose you know more than _____" whoever, but the statement I made was logical. I stand by it. We can not say the potential intelligence of any ethnic group, because potential is something that remains to be seen. A billion studies about the way different groups measure on tests now will not tell us what the future could be like, and any ideas about why those groups measure as they do can only ever be theories because they are statistical and you can always sift the numbers a different way by considering different factors.