Who gets a 5 on AP Physics C exam?
11th July 2010
Steve Sailer is always willing to talk about things that other people avoid.
Everybody is in favor of in-depth analysis of educational statistics in theory, but when they actually finally look at them, the obvious leaps out: Holy cow, compared to everything else, race really matters. You can’t adjust it away (except by using cynical proxies for race the way Steven Levitt tried to do a few years ago: e.g., favorite soda flavor is Grape or the rough equivalent). And when it comes to physics and a few other subjects, sex matters.
Steve likes to say that a ‘race’ is actually an endogamous extended family, concerning which genetic differences are not only natural but inevitable.