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"Whether they looked at average performance, the scores of the most gifted children or students' ability to solve complex math problems, girls measured up to boys."
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"[T]here comes a point when we as a society have to ask ourselves where we went wrong. Why do our movie-children insist on being conduits for evil?"
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A tribute in honor of the 100th anniversary of the liquification of the lightest noble gas.
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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