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In article <2feg6.3203$Nj5.150001@bgtnsc07-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
  "Harold Covington" <NSNet88@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Subject: Negro IQ may average only 70
>
> Phil Rushton's paper showing African [Negro] students (University of
> Witwatersrand) have a mean IQ of only 84 is now published [see
McDougall
> NewsLetters 1998]:
>
> 'Performance on Raven's Matrices by African and White
> university students in South Africa.' Intelligence 28, 4, 251-265.
> J. Philippe RUSHTON & Mervyn SKUY (2000).
>
>  The authors note: "Black South African students are a highly selected
> population. They have passed standardized school matriculation exams,
> entered university and been chosen for a first-year course in
Psychology on
> the basis of academic performance. Assuming that these students are 1
> standard deviation {15 IQ points} above the population mean, the
results
> are in accord with earlier work finding that Africans, in general,
average
> a tested IQ of 70."
>    --
> Chris Brand, Edinburgh.
>   Psychorealist and author of THE 'g' FACTOR.* (Wiley DePublisher,
1996.
> 2001 edition available free at
http://www.douance.org/qi/brandtgf.htm.)
>
> * To vote on the book's main educational proposal, 'track choice',
and to
> see  how others have voted, just go to:
> http://www.newciv.org/GIB/diyfut/DIY-14.HTML.
> (In early January 2001, the approval level stood at 83%.)
>    --
>  "Free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of
> different nationalities. Among a people without fellow-feeling,
especially
> if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion
> necessary to the working of representative government cannot exist."
>
>       J. S. MILL, 1861, Considerations on Representative Government.
>        ______________
>
> The 80-85 range is typical of the Negro population in America
probably due to the presence of White genes. As many will recall, Dr.
William Shockley, Nobel winner, caught hell for suggesting that a color
gradient correlated with intelligence.

Ralph


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