RE: Infantilized Yale students meltdown
Nowadays, a lot of PC-leftists have already given-up on that (that being "testing bias," although the leftist shriekings of "testing bias" still rears its neck from time to time).
Psychological handbooks/textbooks (and the field of "Psychology" skews left, to say the least) regularly admit testing bias is not A Thing.
Educational companies like ETS are pretty leftist, and monitor any potential testing bias like a hawk. It is no coincidence that East Asians, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders are jammed under one category, and the Math "ceiling" is lower than the Verbal ceiling (it has the highest variance each year, and looks like a plateau instead of a bell curve [some years it's even bi-modal]).
Thus, they have switched from regurgitating buzzwords/buzz-phrases like "testing bias" for buzzwords/buzz-phrases like "epigenetics" and/or "trans-generational wealth."
Of course, their evidence for epigenetics relies on shaky evidence from mice experiments--which suffer heavily from publication bias, mice breed very quickly--and some vague bleatings about the Dutch Famine.
And then about how the parents or grandparents of modern-day blacks had to face such devastations like red-lining or having to drink from a different water fountain.
"Hmm... the parents or grandparents of modern-day blacks got oppressed by red-lining, or segregation? The parents or grandparents of modern-day Chinese and Taiwanese Americans literally sometimes had siblings that died because there was not enough food--and the surviving ones are generally shorter because of malnutrition. Oh, and we put the Japs in internment camps (but who cares?).
If epigenetics somehow makes blacks dumber... then where was epigenetics during the Great Chinese Famine, during Pol Pot's Executions, during the Kosovo War?"
Easy_C said:
Nowadays, a lot of PC-leftists have already given-up on that (that being "testing bias," although the leftist shriekings of "testing bias" still rears its neck from time to time).
Psychological handbooks/textbooks (and the field of "Psychology" skews left, to say the least) regularly admit testing bias is not A Thing.
Educational companies like ETS are pretty leftist, and monitor any potential testing bias like a hawk. It is no coincidence that East Asians, South Asians, Southeast Asians, and Pacific Islanders are jammed under one category, and the Math "ceiling" is lower than the Verbal ceiling (it has the highest variance each year, and looks like a plateau instead of a bell curve [some years it's even bi-modal]).
Thus, they have switched from regurgitating buzzwords/buzz-phrases like "testing bias" for buzzwords/buzz-phrases like "epigenetics" and/or "trans-generational wealth."
Of course, their evidence for epigenetics relies on shaky evidence from mice experiments--which suffer heavily from publication bias, mice breed very quickly--and some vague bleatings about the Dutch Famine.
And then about how the parents or grandparents of modern-day blacks had to face such devastations like red-lining or having to drink from a different water fountain.
"Hmm... the parents or grandparents of modern-day blacks got oppressed by red-lining, or segregation? The parents or grandparents of modern-day Chinese and Taiwanese Americans literally sometimes had siblings that died because there was not enough food--and the surviving ones are generally shorter because of malnutrition. Oh, and we put the Japs in internment camps (but who cares?).
If epigenetics somehow makes blacks dumber... then where was epigenetics during the Great Chinese Famine, during Pol Pot's Executions, during the Kosovo War?"