Rageh Omah's programme about race and intelligence

[MaggieBruja]

anybody going to watch it?

yup

Now on channel 4

I hope someone is there to explain how the IQ tests work. I remember learning about them in Psychology at uni (in the 1980s) about how they were weighted towards while, male middle-class euro/north americans.

I did an IQ test and it came out quite high. Ha! It counts for absolutely nothing!

We are watching it now. on C4 started at 9pm

more info please. what time and where?

I started laughing at how ridiculous Richard Lin was, then realised how deeply unfunny and hidious it was. Aborigines with an average IQ of 75 ffs.
Interesting article in Times2 today by Tony Buzan on IQ

I was just thinking the same georgiemum

seen. sorry.

Will look that up wonderstuff, I can remember doing IQ tests at primary school.

That richard lin, if I understood correctly, did he say he only tested 30 to 40 people of each race?!

I wonder what efforts if any RL made to test a wide cross section of each race's people...

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article6888049.ece

thanks

I know "morons, imbeciles and idiots" as actual categories of people had me ROtFL.

very interesting.

How stupid is this guy?

Seems quite conclusive.

Benjysmum, yes that seemed like some black and white harry enfield sketch.

That was actually quite thought provoking although I'm not sure it told us anything really new about race and educational achievement. The bit about having "a middle class mentality" made me think though.

I thought the last guy, talking about how IQ scores have increased over time and what exactly they measured was interesting.

I have always felt that middle class aspirations are key, school league tables are a really good indicator of what sort of neighbourhood a school serves.

interesting stuff. Dh and I have decided we're middle class wannabe's - we think we have the middle class aspirations for us and our children.........we're just somewhat lacking in the material things to show it )