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TMurray said:
The issue with general intelligence tests is that they are adjusted to a certain gender, race and age group. Once you start moving away from the three groups you've adjusted your test for, you start to introduce a margin of error. Sometimes this margin of error can render the test results meaningless.

The best work on this subject was done by Arthur Jensen from I hate to admit it, Cal Berkeley, the real problem comes with state imposed diversity requirements, requiring dumber people being mixed in with smarter people, thanks to ADA and Brown vs. Board of Education we now have imbeciles in the same classrooms as geniuses.

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You Canucks are as dumb as we are, India is an interesting case since, due to the caste system the classes didn't interbreed for centuries, yielding a very low average but some very brilliant people.

The absurd goal of allowing "anyone to be whatever they want to be" is having disastrous results, the last bar results have been the worst ever, and they paralleled the drop in LSAT scores, physicians have become so bad that a friend has closed his law practice to go to the State Department of Consumer Affairs (the same department that licenses contractors) to prosecute incompetent young doctors, I have friends who were corporate pilots who won't fly in a commercial airliner, today's pilots just plug a laptop computer in and go, if something goes wrong they are lost, the same goes for air traffic controllers, we essentially have the blind leading the blind in the air. Our Governor recently signed a bill allowing 60,000 kids to get high school degrees who had repeatedly been unable to pass an exit exam in 6th grade math and 8th grade English, amazingly many celebrated because they had already been admitted to college pending their high school degrees. Maybe once they get their college degrees they can go to work for Solar City installing solar panels for Tiger to inspect.

How else do you explain Tiger's pictures? Why do we license stupid contractors?
 
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