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Entry: Rev. Wright is Right!: white people suck at rapping Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/rev_wright_is_right_white_people_suck_at_rapping#24694 Post contents: Intelligence is multifactorial. Consider the hypothetical scenario that 5 distinct skills are required to complete an intelligence test, i.e. visual reasoning, language, etc. Now consider that one particular group of people may lack one of these five skills, and that despite good performance in the other four categories, their performance in one area drags the overall score down. This situation, to some extent, exists in the IQ testing world. The factor that when removed mostly equalizes the IQ test between ethnic groups is called "g." This explains why an African American with an "IQ" of 80 can work circles around the typical white individual with an IQ of 80: for the white individual the IQ of 80 may represent a global brain dysfunction whereas for the AA the IQ of 80 (which is near their average) may represent poor performance in only one skill: "g." The impetus is on psycho-metrics researchers to identify core skills, to develop tests for these core skills, and then to associate the core skill with career types. For example, "g" may only be required for a handful of jobs (physics, physician, business strategist), and for many other positions other testable skills would be more germane. In a multi-cultural society we need better evaluation tools to prevent unfair discrimination against both minority and majority. Having fair testing would also help bring many intelligent, though scorned, individuals out of the shadows of racist groups. Any comment on this? Sent at: 2008 07 04