This research is grounded in several controversial assumptions:
the social categories of race and ethnicity are concordant with genetic categories, such as biogeographic ancestry.
intelligence is measurable (see psychometrics) and is dominated by a unitary general cognitive ability.
Much of the evidence currently cited is based on IQ testing in the United States. While the distributions of IQ scores among different racial-ethnic groups overlap and often have a comparable range, groups differ in where their members cluster along the IQ scale.[3] Similar clustering occurs with related variables, such as school achievement, reaction time, and brain size, and the gap shows up before age 3 on most standardized tests after matching for variables such as maternal education.[4] Most variation in IQ in the U.S. occurs within individual families, not between races. However, even small differences in average IQ at the group level might theoretically have large effects on social outcomes. For example, a randomly selected group of Americans with an average IQ of 103 had a poverty rate 25% lower than a group with an average IQ of 100. Similar substantial correlations in high school drop-out rates, crime rates, and other outcomes have been measured.[5]
Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain why average IQ varies among racial-ethnic groups even though the ranges of individual IQ scores are virtually identical. Certain environmental factors, such as nutrition, are thought to modulate IQ in children[6], and other influences have been hypothesized, including education level, richness of the early home environment, and other social, cultural, or economic factors. The primary focus of the scientific debate is whether group IQ differences also reflect a genetic component. Hereditarianism hypothesizes that a genetic contribution to intelligence could include genes linked to neuron structure or function, brain size or metabolism, or other physiological differences which could vary with biogeographic ancestry.Is your teacher black or white???Does your teacher wear a white hood?I think your teacher is racist and is spreading racism in the class room, no that is not true, black or white doesn't matter what color you are, intelligence is different in every human being. Your teacher needs to be fired for being a racist person and filling his students minds with a lot of bull.You're lying, you're teacher said no such thing. You're just trying to get a rise out of people and the sad thing is you'll probably succeed.I think that is not true.....I think your teacher look down black people....no thats not true.. now this time no one should think in this way.Good grief, where are you studying? This teacher needs to be reported to the principal or the school board. This is racism.that while when?Of course. But give them some drugs and they'll tell you the weight, cost, street value and where to get it. About 90% of them are dirty, unhygenic amd lazy.i think you teacher is full of CRAP.......& should be reported to your head.Dont call her "teacher". and dont black or white.That's a racist remark from your Teaacher!....My Husband is Black and he has higher grades than me. It depends on each individual.Every single person on this planet - no matter what race, creed, etc. has the ability to be intelligent - one cannot and should not EVER try to measure the intelligence of a person by the color of one's skin.
Your teacher is WRONG and should not EVER have said such a thing for - to me - it sounds like a racist statement.
Sadly, some people might believe what this teacher says - thus racism lives on. Sigh!"Inherently" is a poor and improper word choice here.
Go read a book called "The Bell Curve". written by Harvard professors is was controversial because it looked at test scores, SAT, ACT, IQ tests, and developed correlations based on those scores of thousand and thousands of samples.
It came to some pretty startling conclusions about race differences in intelligence. One being that poverty is a factor in intelligence. But blacks and hispanics consistently scored lower than other races in IQ tests that were screened for cultural bias. Meaning questions can't have a cultural bias like they used to. For instance, questions using Tennis or Yachting as an example would only be understood by certain classes of subjects....
So take what you want from that. But inherent means things can't be changed or turned around.....My personal opinion is that the colour of your skin has no reflection on your itelligence and I think your 'teacher' shouldnt be making statements like that. Some of the most influenctial people in history have been black. I think your teacher seriously needs to re-evaluate their teaching method before speaking such cr*pThats a load of rubbish, your teacher shouldnt be telling you things like thatSurely your teacher cannot make remarks like that?
That's not right.No, I don't think that color is a factor.Teachers should teach fact. I think that remark is his own opinion about black peoples intelligence. I don't think he'll be a teacher much longer.I'm surprised with an ignorant viewpoint like that, that your teacher knows the word 'inherently'.
It's not true. Due to social circumstances (and discrimination in terms of allocation of resources) in some countries, 'black' people may not achieve as much academically as 'white' people, but it is nothing to do with innate intelligence.No! Nobody can say a one statement about an entire race or ethnicity!!!Is this a joke? I think your teacher needs re-educating or sacking!! Report the idiot.i dont agree...I don't think 'inherently' was the right word, there have been studies done on intellegence as one of the answerers alludes (atheist someone). Studies have suggested between races there are disparities in IQ scores, but these figures while they are scientifically apt there is still much debate over the question to why this is so. Typically white people have better access to education are financially better off etcetera then their other counterparts such as black poeple, so this rather then genetic make-up is more likely (at least i think) to be the cause.
That is, enviromental influences rather then gene pool are the reason for the difference between races in regards to IQ. and other races are NOT 'inherently' less intellegent.your teacher seems like a racist *****. I really dont think thats true.As has already been mentioned there is a scientific basis for what was said by your teacher. However what hasn't been mentioned so far is that the tests in which this is true have largely been written by white people and tested on a predominantly white population - in other words there is an inherent bias. SATS, IQ tests and so on are not as objective as some people like to think, they're almost bound to measure intelligence less favourably for minority cultures.
I did some work on this for an unpublished paper and found that tests written in American also show Europeans to be less intelligent. This research was backed up by published material relating to occupational testing. I seem to recall that back in the seventies there was a flurry of articles in the popular press about Americans having being 'proved' to be the most intelligent race which fizzled out when this very point about bias was made by academics.
There are 'culture-fair' tests, but they are not being widely used. They show there is no difference in intelligence based on skin colour. What we seem to have is institutionalised racism in the testing framework rather than a teacher who is being deliberately racist. He/she is reporting observed differences, but failing to explain how they arise - probably because the publishers of the tests don't want people (even teachers) to know how biased they are - they'd lose money if they did!O.k. for one it's hard to believe that a teacher would say something like that. More like something an ignorant kid would say! So no...that's not true.........if they study just as hard as the next guy they would probably be equal!
But I'm not racial either!
SmileyCat : )I would seriously consider changing schools. It really depends on whether your teacher posted the question, to be discussed, and he/she is playing "Devil's Advocate" in order to promote debate in the classroom. If as I suspect, it was a comment rather than a question, then go back to my first sentence and let your folks know the situation.
Kev from Liverpool, UK.
GOOD LUCK.Go suck a lollipop. You'll feel better. Jackass.your teacher is an ignorant racist.....report him/her to education authority...i would