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Entry: Can Barack Obama and Racist Pseudo Science Coexist? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/can_barack_obama_and_racist_pseudo_science_coexist#26726 Post contents: Barack got into Columbia, which like several Ivy League schools, would compete hard to get a black in the top percentiles of conceptual ability. Estimating 130 might be more accurate. Again one sees the great utility of knowing the group means; as it allows one to predict the threshold value where applicants from a group can be expected to cluster in very high degree. If blacks without some special sport or highly- recruitable specialized talent have a cut-off of IQ 125 for Columbia, almost all of them will be within 125-130, due to the group means of their larger population that they come from. Psychology is not a science and doesn't even pretend to be, neither is economics which makes extravagant assumptions about laws governing human behavior and on statistical grounds. There is not known to be any immorality in using group means to predict individual results, when it's done reasonably. Right-wing outlets should have no problem with the Inequality of Man; it's a problem for the left, and a resource for exploitation by the power-greedy of all descriptions. Sent at: 2008 11 20