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Here is a list of Basic Concept posts in Mathematics.
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Here is a list of Basic Concept posts in Computer Science and Logic.
We need more mathematical analysis to counter the claims of creationists, and here's a good one: Mark Chu-Carroll has started a new weblog titled Good Math, Bad Math

1957-1970 New York City heavily invested in intelligence and standardized testing. Tracks for the Gifted, the average, the manually talented, and the stupid efficiently allocated resources and disgorged utilitarian products. The Community screamed that intelligence was a paradigm of institutional racism - Blacks as a group scored 15 and Browns 10 IQ points lower than Whites. (NY had a huge fractional Jewish population.)

A "Black IQ test" was written and normed. When administered citywide minorities did indeed ring the bell curve at ~100 IQ. It was later leaked the average White scored ~120. Intelligence and standardized testing were compassionately ended, ending functional public education.

"No gender differences in math performance" would evaporate like morning dew in summer given standardized tests exhumed from the mid-1960s. Ability resides between the ears not between the thighs. "No gender differences in math performance" is rigorous characterization of the topology and function of cluelessness. It is political and it stinks.

http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/immig.htm
36 years later on the Left Coast