If Blacks are less intelligent what should we do?

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You qualify that as a reasonable response,really?
Allow me to introduce you to King High school marching band: [video=youtube;nszIfYOr7zk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nszIfYOr7zk[/video]
They are so badass it's not even funny.
Georgia what?
I just know that because I've been around heanh a minute or two.
Yeah Atlanta=over 60% black,kinda like Jacksonville.
It's not like I don't know people that live in other places.
My cousin is probably a public defender where you live.
I have family nationwide.

 

Commenting on how liberals or conservatives are is a glaringly obvious indication logic is missing from the conversation.
Be specific. Critique individual behavior and criticize policy that you oppose. Have enough integrity to post with thought and substance.

 

Haha. Are you too ashamed to come out from under your sheet?
Those here criticizing America ought to list the blacks in their country who are wealthy, influential, world leaders, globally known...
There is NO place on earth where blacks have been as successful as they have been in the US.

 

Hey,blacks did fight for the freedom of the US,Don't ever forget that.
They did,and it is documented.Black people been here around forever.Probably before your ancestors,maybe not before mine.
Obama is not included in that group,no sir.He is a Communist Kenyan.Not no Black American.I know 6'4" women that would love to slap him silly.
They are Americans.

 

Blacks in the US dominate football and basketball. They dominate track and field. Absolutely no argument.
Science has already confirmed we share common ancestry and humanity certainly didn't appear first over on my side of the globe.
Asian, European, and African are the three primary ethnicities. There are similarities and differences.

 

You haven't been to Swaziland. The king of Swaziland had 15 wives and 30 children . . . so far.

 

I'm guessing you're black, young, and not American.
I'm also guessing you're reluctant to identify your country because it probably hasn't produced a wealth of world known successful blacks like the US has.
You should ask yourself how Oprah, Rice, Powell, Shonda, Jordan, Jackson, Denzel, Obama, FUBU, Motown, Usher, O'Neal, Powell, Cosby, Tucker, Beyonce, etc...etc...made it in the US. Where are they in other countries?
Women, homosexuals, Hispanics, disabled, impoverished... They have all succeeded in my country.

 

In the southeast "cracker" is a comedic term for whites. Sometimes it is used by angry minorities.
Louisiana is immediately what comes to mind if you say cajun.
The accent that comes out of Louisiana is very, very distinct. Unlike any other southeastern region. Unmistakable.
If you talk about Florida crackers, the term came from Florida cowboys and the cracking sound their herding methods made. But that is certainly not what the word means today. You can be a "redneck" without ever having been on a farm or tractor or horse.
Don't confuse word origin and contemporary connotation.

 

I've never been outside the contiguous US. That is why I don't post about the political and economic and domestic affairs in other countries. I am wise enough to know what I do and don't know

 

Haha... Whites in the US whose great grandparents were born here might explore their ancestry as a curiosity or hobby.
Relatively new immigrants may hold on to some traditions for a very brief time, but American culture absorbs VERY quickly. Asian and Hispanic immigrants who have children in the US will have very Americanized children. Jewish families and Native Americans that live on reservations probably preserve their heritage and culture most successfully. If you send your kid to public school, haha... It's a done deal.
On a census there is no Irish, English, Italian, Scandanavian, Australian, Canadian, French, etc... Just Caucasian or Hispanic Caucasian.
I have always thought it fascinating that posters here love to slam on American intelligence. It must burn that us simpletons are the global superpower, the wealthiest, the most prosperous, the strongest militarily, most technologically advanced, etc...etc...
We are superior because we have absolutely no desire to be anything or anyone else. And when we want interior change, we make it happen.

 

Oh...and what is different about Florida is that even though it is further southeast than Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, it is by no means AT ALL considered any part of the American South.
"Dixie" doesn't include anything west of Mississippi or south of Alabama.

 

I see quite well.
The US has been in the Middle East for as long as I can remember. Clinton, Bush, Obama. We are still there.
When gas soared and hybrids, alternative transit, and investment in alternative energy and transportation took off, I saw gas prices plummet to around $2/gallon where they have remained since.
I see Trump winning. I see Apple telling DC they cannot have their technology or access to it. I see America's youth and middle aged influenced by technology, medicine, business, communication, growth. Our lives didn't change as parties and politicians came and went. Politics are very quickly losing any relevance. Apple, Google, Verizon, Samsung, Ford... Much more powerful.

 

What is truly delusional is that your perception. America is not a global benevolence foundation... I am so curious to know what makes the rest of the world think calling us mean will accomplish.
It seems they are so profoundly unaware that we don't care at all.
No other country is using their military or weapons to fight global American tyranny.
The world that criticizes us and does nothing ought to be embarrassed.
I'm very proud of my country.

 

IQ tests measure capacity to learn and think.
It is very different from say a degree, certification, or standardized test.
Define your understanding of intelligence.

 

My personal understanding of intelligence would be quite different from yours. I am merely talking about it in this forum in terms of how it is commonly understood, or perhaps you could more accurately say misunderstood.

 

You didn't define your understanding of intelligence. You didn't ask how I understand intelligence.
An IQ test and the SAT are completely different tests that assess completely different things.
Again, define intelligence as you use it so we might better understand each other.

 

Perhaps it would be more productive for us to see if we could work from your definition. My ideas in that regard are very esoteric.

 

If you had to pick someone alive right now that exemplifies your best picture of intelligence, who would you name? I'll reciprocate.

 

The SAT is just an I.Q. test.

 

No one is saying that IQ is unreliable when talking about Blacks but rather that the cause of group differences in IQ is environmental differences rather than genetics. In the case of Blacks racist discrimination plays a major role in why the environment is different.

Autism and mental retardation by the way are not the same thing. Autistic people have severely impaired social skills but may have average to above average intelligence. Mental retardation or intellectual disability refers to impaired cognitive function.

I will take a crack at this. Intelligence is the ability to learn and apply knowledge. Intelligence is not a physical thing but rather a concept. Intelligence is a function of the brain just like sight is a function of the eyes. Some people can think better than others just like some people can see better than others and there are genetic and environmental factors at play for why this is. An IQ (intelligence quotient) test is designed to measure intelligence.

Here is a good overview of intelligence:

Sternberg (2012): Intelligence Dialogues in clinical neuroscience 2012 Mar; 14(1): 19–27.

No, it's not. The SAT is a test of your scholastic aptitude on various aspects of formal education. That is why most people study for it to do well. While your score on the SAT correlates strongly with IQ the SAT is not an IQ test.

IQ tests attempt to measure how smart you are while the SAT measures how educated you are to assess your preparation for college.

 

The SAT is heavily g loaded. It was accepted for many years as a qualifying score for Mensa and Intertel.

 

Yes, like I said it is correlated highly with IQ but is not itself an IQ test.

 

No, not at all.
They are completely different. Different in the way a vision screening and a vocabulary test are different. Your vision cannot be improved or sharpened by study and instruction. Your vocabulary can be. An IQ at 18 will change negligibly regardless of education throughout life with the exception of brain trauma. You cannot educate one out of mental retardation or, I assure you, it would have been done.
Have you ever taken the SAT?

 

Yes, and given it. And studied how it was designed. And studied and given many I.Q. test. Most of the improvement in SAT scores is from taking it more than once. Same thing happens on I.Q. tests.

 

An IQ test measures your capacity to think, learn, reason, apply logic. You cannot study for an IQ test. Your IQ remains stagnant once your brain matures. A mentally retarded individual is diagnosed such because of IQ score. They cannot be educated out of it.
SAT measures how well one is able to recall certain facts, information, it assesses taught skills...primarily math and reading comprehension. I took the SAT in 93-94. You had a math score and a reading score. You could take it as many times as you wanted and your score was your higgest overall reading score and highest overall math score... Subsequent attempts were seldom much better than the first.
Of contemporary people, who exemplifies your personification of extraordinary intelligence?