[A Rasmussen poll says that 96% of African Americans support President Obama.]
40% of the African American population has an IQ below 80.
Could this be part of the cause for the stunning poll number? After all O’Bumbler is only half Black. The part that abandoned him as a child.
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BS on both ends.
1) The current black average IQ is 90-93 (depends on what IQ tests you look at). The median average is about 91.
http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html
The average white racist IQ is probably ironically closer to 85 than 100. lol
And one forgets that IQ A: Changes with time and is based on a bell curve.
B: Based on education, which most Blacks, suffering from structural racism from our (As in USA) ancestors, tend to get poorer schools because they are from poorer areas. One that grew up in a wealthy black family and went to a good school is likely to score 100+ and middle class more around 100.
C: Lack of eductation may help translate to racism and the idea that the 'past' is good in some manner. I don't know, but I'd rather not go back any. We've worked too hard for things like Democracy, equality, not having slaves, not being ruled by fuedal overlords, Not being in tribes, indoor plumbing, cars, Television, Roads...
I do love rectally produced statistics.
"That is around 18 PTS below the IQ on an average European American."
This is also BS on more than one level.
1) A gap of 18 points would mean the white American average IQ is 103 if you're claiming the black average is 85. The white American average is currently 100. It's ALWAYS 100 because the median average score is set to the average for the majority population in the country. Whenever the white average moves the average is just reset as "100" again. Everyone else's scores are just relative to the median average of 100 for the majority-white population. What qualified as "100" 80 years ago on IQ tests would not be "100" on modern IQ tests. The tests are updated and upgraded every 20-30 years. We're not using the same Stanford-Binet tests today that we used in 1932.
2) The black median average is currently about 91 (it varies from 90-93 depending on the specific IQ test). What "91" was 80 years ago is also different from what "91" is today. The black average is just "91" RELATIVE to the white "100" average.
3) That puts the black-white IQ gap at 7-10 points currently. A significant reduction from the 18-point gap in the 1930s and the 15-point gap in the 60s and 70s. This is due to the "Flynn Effect". Read up on it.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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