"OhSojourner" <ohsojourner at aol.com> wrote in message
news:ce660175.0207201519.32325665 at posting.google.com...
> Both you and Mr. Knight are attempting to maintain that because of
> these "averages", either the exceptional individuals must apparently
> not exist; their feats and accomplishments are invalid for one reason
> or another, or that it's dangerous to society to suggest that their
> birth-group as a whole be allowed to have open access to certain
> opportunities, privileges, freedoms and rights.
>> ...So, in other words, you are trying to use these averages to justify
> bigotry against individuals NO MATTER THEIR CAPABILITY.
>
It's hard to tell if you're just too STUPID to be able to comprehend a
single word that was posted, or if you post such things just to attempt to
confuse the issue. Either way, they sure are great debate tactics, aren't
they?
So this reply isn't for you--it's only to set the record straight.
NOBODY claims that "exceptional individuals must apparently not exist".
This is a LIE. We are the ones noting that exceptional individuals DO
exist. The point you don't seem to grasp, or don't want to admit, is that
the real exceptional individuals aren't getting recognition because
affirmative action hirees are handed all the resources on a silver platter,
which does nobody any good.
In terms of intellectual accomplishments, the high scores of East Asians
suggests that they should have most of the exceptional individuals, and
their recent accomplishments in technology, family incomes, social
stability, and personal savings is entirely consistent. They are so far up
the curve, that the most exceptional White American women don't even reach
their median scores, which is a very good indication that there's something
awry about all this hooplah about Curie and Hopper. GRE shows that the
upper sixth of American White women score 632, which is 11 points LOWER than
the median Asians in the US, and they score much lower than Asians in Asia
[read: the very brightest White American women are the dull knives in the
drawer compared to the MEDIAN Asian man].
We actually do know what you mean by "bigotry against individuals NO MATTER
THEIR CAPABILITY". What you mean is that, no matter how low American girls
scored in TIMSS Math and Science, regardless of the fact that they scored
lower than if they'd just guessed on ONE third of TIMSS physics problems,
even though the creme de la creme of women who took GRE quantitative scored
127 points lower than Asian men--it's only because of "bigotry" that women
don't get 50% of all patents rather than 4%.
Dead wrong.
John Knight
