Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "hqhy" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 06:00:57 +1000 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <20b9f853-f198-41f4-ac67-14e03b4505e3@googlegroups.com> <1192676788461863586.412935peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <56badb0b-8b2b-4820-ae82-d2b1cbcdb247@googlegroups.com> <7d15de22-c615-4812-b60a-efeb181ee75c@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 3gcjeFmsqe4MdOdVw/QHZQVUq4cu61yA5RhLCF6aRdoYE4wI8= Cancel-Lock: sha1:U91ur9cGEcWIADK9/7wsC3RXo5k= In-Reply-To: <7d15de22-c615-4812-b60a-efeb181ee75c@googlegroups.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:150708 "Quadibloc" wrote in message news:7d15de22-c615-4812-b60a-efeb181ee75c@googlegroups.com... > On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 2:37:35 PM UTC-6, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com > wrote: >> On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 1:52:26 PM UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote: > >> > a) Since black people are genetically equal in intelligence to white >> > people, >> > *if* the average ensemble of outcomes for black people is not the same >> > as the >> > ensemble of outcomes for white people - this means that their >> > opportunities >> > were not, in fact, equal, despite any appearances to the contrary. It >> > means one >> > hasn't looked hard enough for the inequalities of opportunity that are >> > causing >> > the inequalities of outcome. > >> Genetic issues are not, by far, the only factor in determining outcome. >> Cultural matters play a part, too. > >> For example, some ethnic groups, as a whole, consider education to be >> very >> important, and many of the members put a very high priority on it while >> raising their children. Not surprisingly, children of such groups tend >> to be >> better than average educationally. > > Oh, yes. I don't expect black people to do as well as, say, the Chinese > (or > other East Asians) or the Jews. But they ought to do about as well as the > average WASP, given equal external advantages. The problem appears to be a cultural one, they don't value the same things. In fact it would be more surprising if they did value the same things when we know that they don't with music and stuff like that. And it isn't a racial thing either, the english had the same problem with the irish and so do america. Cultural values were VERY different.