Jason Richwine asks: Why can’t we talk about IQ? He wonders why journalists have a cow every time the subject arises. Short answer: Because journalists have very low IQs, Jason! And they’re sensitive about it! … Duh.
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Not only do liberals refuse to see the truth behind I.Q. testing, they have this fixation about college educations. A diploma does not mean a person is smart, it merely means they went to college. I never went to college, I quit high school after my freshman year, but I can design and build a road, bridge or dam with the best of them. I worked with a lot of college engineers over the years and almost every one of them had one thing in common. If it was not printed in the plans they didn't know how to do anything.
Construction plans are printed on paper, not chisled in stone, and the best plan known to man cannot tell you what you will find when the shovel hits the dirt. Problems will always crop up and if you don't have any thinking skills all the education in the world will not help figure out what to do about them.
That's exactly right. That is why when I give a customer an estimate, I always tell them that the price is contingent on not finding any surprises when I get into the walls, floor, ceiling, or whatever.
90% of the time, there are surprises. Mostly due to something stupid someone else did last time they worked on it.
EXACTLY!! There is a world of difference between education and intellect. The left, being incapable of thinking, will never understand this though.
Day in, day out, I have to deal with people who have master degrees and doctorate degrees who can not function as adults, book learning and writing papers means you were good in school, but that does not guarantee you can function in the real world. Look at Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory" Can't drive, can not comprehend, can not understand most of the world around him. We get these "Einstein's" all the time in my line of work, they are going to change the world..They set themselves up for EPIC failures every day and cannot understand why. They feel they have an obligation to tell others what to do, say and think. The majority are a waste of space. Give me a guy or gal with real world experience and a High School diploma and maybe some college and I can make it work for them every time....It's just like our President who is also an Epic Failure. Went to a couple colleges (Maybe) and with no experience tries to run the country...He's (to quote our stupid vice president) "clean, Bright, and articulate" and plays golf...well there is a resume' to be proud of.....No experience, just college and suddenly he is the brightest guy in the room......Yea this group of over educated morons has done a wonderful job running the country.......Got em a college degree and still dumber than a box of dried cow shit.
My youngest cousin just got her Masters in "theatrical arts", whatever the hell that is, and has no idea of what to do for a living. She is 32 years old and has been in school all her life! She just got back from England where she had some kind of scolarship to finish school and teach something or other, and now does not know what to do to earn a living in the real world.
She may have a job at Eastern New Mexico U., she should find out next week, and if she gets the postition she will end up like the vast majority of college professors. She will have spent her entire life in academics with no real knowledge of how the world and life in general works.
The libtards absolutely hate this book dealing with IQ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
I've mentioned the book from time to time and have been met with the same disdain .
TOO BAD !!!!
I don't understand why libs still labor under the delusion that they somehow have a right to not be offended.
The Liberal mentality and Worldview is at its core Godless . Grant you , they are god to themselves , but that's not what I'm referring to.
Their main thought rotates around the belief " I reject Reality and will replace it with my own ." God and his wisdom , MUST NOT be the authority .
Sadly most reject God , but still retain the bits of Wisdom or truth they favor . Its the old concept of " Doing what's right in their own eyes ." In the end both roads have the same destination .
The comment section featuring some white-guilt ridden liberals bore out Richwine's observations of the journalists who squeamishly ignore the test results or find any way to argue against them.
The problem, as I see it, is that the libtards that run the journalistic enterprises are not smart enough to do anything but parrot liberal talking points, not having an original thought in their heads.
Therefore they must argue against IQ tests, because they rarely register above room temperature, and they "know" they are smarter than that.
Wasn't it the white-guilt laden liberals who invented the stupid intelligence tests in the first place, so they could prove just how intellectually superior they were to all other races, including non-progressive whites? If I'm not mistaken, wasn't this testing designed under the Roosevelt administration...a decidedly racist, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic administration if memory serves me?
White folk always complain when its noted that Asians average higher IQ.. Aggravating as heck
Oh wait.. what universe was I in? That doesn't happen. They just hire the asians
I have no problem acknowledging that the Asian people on average are smarter than me.
Exactly. Generally, white people are not easily offended by facts. Personally, I think different people have different attributes to contribute. And with Africa having more genetic diversity than the rest of the world combined (yes, believe it or not, a white European has more in common genetically with an Eskimo than a black Kenyan has with a black Nigerian), much of what we say about races in general is meaningless at the individual level. Anyone who thinks he is smart because of his race will sooner or later be embarrassed by a black genius, and I have played many pickup games of basketball where I chose a black guy for his color assuming he would be fast and jump high only to discover he was a ground-bound snail with no athletic ability whatsoever.
"including the IQ difference between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites."
Ah, but what about White Hispanics?
I is one of dose an I's intelajunt as any high skewel gradeate.
Cripes, as soon as the academics do a scholarly study on race, the damn journalists invent a new race.
Where are these "journalists" of whom you speak? Journalism hasn't been widely in practice here in many decades as the art has become incrementally criminalized. Perhaps you are referring to the history revisionists, junk science promoters, and liberal lap dogs that have hijacked the function of journalism.