Applying “Occam’s Razor” vs. Asserting “Occam’s Racist!”
30th August 2015
Steve Sailer points out some inconvenient truth.
A general assumption of the moderate conventional wisdom over the last half century is that average black performance is dragged down by specific impediments, such as poverty, crime, culture of poverty, parental taciturnity, lead paint, or whatever. One would therefore expect blacks without those impediments to score equal with whites.
But a close inspection of the social science data suggests that the world doesn’t really look like that. For example, above is the 2013 federal National Assessment of Educational Progress scores for 12th graders in Reading. Blacks who are the children of college graduates average 274, which is the same as whites who are the children of high school dropouts.
‘Progressives’ are all about science, except when it disagrees with their preconceived notions, in which case RACIST!