🚀 go-pugleaf

the primary reason why there is a CULTURAL differential in standardized
testing is due to the fact that the test can only be a product of one culture
at a time...a man makes a test from his perspective and, if that perspective
is not a clearly related one to another mans' the test is inaccurate Three
examples-- a) when i took an iq test in 5th grade they showed me a group of
pictures of a boy going fishing, various stages, that i was to place in
order, chonological sequence.  Now, say i had grown up in the middle of
Detroit and never seen a person fish in my life, had no real clear idea what
the kid was doing with sticks and string in water?  I would not have been
placed in an accelerated class with only ONE non-caucasian kid in it. b)many
of these test utilize pictures, 2-d representations of 3-d objects.  In a
large number of societies around the world, these pictures are unitelligable.
 in their cultural construct they have no way to understand that what they
see is a picture of a chair...all they know is a chair, never a PICTURE of a
chair. c) (similar to B, above) A test showed three items pictured: A 
throne, a rock and a staff and asked that they be grouped by what went
together.  Now, the 'correct' answer was the two things you can sit on-rock
and throne--but SOME cultures view a staff as a sign of authority and, also,
an ornate seat as a sign of the same authority.  These people grouped the
staff with the throne and, therefore, are not intelligent. Tests are not
absolute!  Even the men who made the standard IQ test had intended it for a
placement exam for NY students, not a way to judge everybody.

Besides, we all know white people are dumb as hell...

Thanks,
sam


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