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Posted by Charles G on Fri Apr 22 16:36:09 2005, in response to Re: A honest cultural question..., posted by Broadway Lion on Fri Apr 22 00:12:53 2005. Not really an answer to your post Elias, but this entire thread has stirred up some old thoughts for me and posting them as a response to your thoughtful words seemed like as good a place as any to post them.Sometimes people seem obsessed with things like "Are whites smarter than blacks?", "Are men smarter than women?". Some people will reflexively answer "No! Not possible!", but I think a better answer is -- "Who cares?". Let's suppose you could create the perfect intelligence test and it was scored on a basis of 0 (effectively brain dead) to 1000 (flat out genius). Everyone in the world took the test and at the end of the day the average woman scored 498 and the average man scored 502. What would that actually tell you? It wouldn't tell you that any man is smarter than any woman. Just that the average man is smarter than the average woman. If you were trying to hire someone, or admit them to a college -- you'd still want to meet them, or look at other information because there are plenty of women out there who would score much higher than 498 (even 1000), and plenty of men who would score much lower than 502 (even 0). Point is -- don't let anyone define you by the color of your skin, or what is or isn't between your legs. People often develop stereotypes based on averages -- but the world doesn't deal in averages. It deals in individuals. |
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