Category Archives: Race

LAT: Why Iowa’s graduation rate is so much higher than California’s

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Luke Ford

Such a mystery. I just can’t figure it out. From LATimes.com: It’s hard to know exactly what’s going on with the numbers, Howard said. “We gotta dig deep to figure out what’s at play.” I went to Wikipedia and looked … Continue reading →

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Race Is Real

Posted on October 14, 2015 by Luke Ford

Francis Collins writes in Nature magazine in 2004: “Well-intentioned statements over the past few years, some coming from geneticists, might lead one to believe there is no connection whatsoever between self-identified race or ethnicity and the frequency of particular genetic … Continue reading →

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Is Race Biological?

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Luke Ford

Comments to Steve Sailer: I love the links that the Editors give for the “repeatedly “”disproven” idea that race exists. http://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/22/science/do-races-differ-not-really-genes-show.html?pagewanted=all This is a cutting edge article from 2000 in that famous scientific publication, the NY Times. But, we are … Continue reading →

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Teach Them Young

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

Miriam Lilian D Or writes: I remember as a kid I got in trouble for not wanting to play with a black doll. I don’t know why I had a black doll, but I was forced to play with it … Continue reading →

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WP: Born that way? ‘Scientific’ racism is creeping back into our thinking. Here’s what to watch out for.

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Luke Ford

From the comments on WashingtonPost.com: * Thanks for today’s installment of “Spot the Logical Fallacies in a WaPo Article”! * It’s generally found that psychometric scores are highest in East Asia and lower in Africa. These trends seem to show … Continue reading →

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