I am wondering why black performance on SAT, LSAT, MCAT, GRE, GMAT, and any other similar standardized test is so low compared to other races. I mean, for example, the black SAT average is several HUNDRED points below the white or Asian average. Plus they say that IQ scores of blacks are average 85 in America, while white and Asian average is around 100.
So what's up with this? I have read several possibilities.
(1) Racism against blacks accounts for the entirety of the black underperformance.
(2) The culture of blacks encourages crime, laziness, victimization and anti-education.
(3) Blacks are genetically dumber.
(4) All such tests are culturally biased so that they favor non-blacks (whites and Asians specifically).
So I'm wondering, which of the above factors are relevant? Thanks.
2006-09-28
12:43:17
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