"Oppositional culture" extends well beyond the peer group to the curriculum and the mass media. For a definitive summary see "How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal" by Grenadan communist Bernard Coard.
@jxhensley Yes. Although Coard's 1971 pamphlet was about the UK, it inspired researchers to investigate the U.S. test-score gap. The trick has been to disentangle hypotheses so each can be independently tested. Researchers have separately studied adolescent peer-pressure and teacher expectation, but not "mass media." Incidentally, there is no B/W gap in the UK. among acculturated kids.
@hitssquad Yes, it is biased if your interest is school performance in the UK. But if you want to compare UK with US (as the video does), then it is a valid apples-to-apples comparison, since the vast majority of African-American families came to North America in early colonial times, and so are fully acculturated.
@Haseeb2, that is true. I do not know if anyone yet is investigating the possibility. A prenatal hypothesis would probably have to be narrow (mother's nutrition, chemicals, etc.) in order to be testable. Fortunately, more scholars are lately taking an interest. Just Google "Ronald Ferguson" of Harvard, for instance.
@frankwsweet Robort Sapolski of Standford emphasized this in his lectures on the Biology and Human Behavior in the section on heretibility, genes and environment. He also mentioned this in his book "Monkey Love". Another thing... there is the issue of external environment. This I think is a valid hypothesis because of what experiments done on mice have shown. I recall the case of the "Doggie Mouse" which was compared to a mouse who had been raised in an enriched environment. Thanks
"Oppositional culture" extends well beyond the peer group to the curriculum and the mass media. For a definitive summary see "How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Subnormal" by Grenadan communist Bernard Coard.
jxhensley 7 months ago
@jxhensley Yes. Although Coard's 1971 pamphlet was about the UK, it inspired researchers to investigate the U.S. test-score gap. The trick has been to disentangle hypotheses so each can be independently tested. Researchers have separately studied adolescent peer-pressure and teacher expectation, but not "mass media." Incidentally, there is no B/W gap in the UK. among acculturated kids.
frankwsweet 7 months ago
@frankwsweet "Incidentally, there is no B/W gap in the UK. among acculturated kids."
g heritability rises with age.
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"among acculturated kids."
Then it's a biased sample.
hitssquad 4 weeks ago
@hitssquad Yes, it is biased if your interest is school performance in the UK. But if you want to compare UK with US (as the video does), then it is a valid apples-to-apples comparison, since the vast majority of African-American families came to North America in early colonial times, and so are fully acculturated.
frankwsweet 4 weeks ago
@frankwsweet "the vast majority of African-American families came to North America in early colonial times, and so are fully acculturated."
...Then I mistook what you meant by "fully acculturated".
hitssquad 4 weeks ago
The first hypothesis is the right hypothesis. I have some material for you to read.
MrObamaNigger 8 months ago
this is great. Apparently we can't say such truthes in person for fear of being shut by thugs.
ThisEducation 9 months ago
I have an idea for an xtranormal feature where there is a discussion of at least one of the hypothesis. Can I post it as a video response here?
Haseeb2 11 months ago
@Haseeb2 By all means, please do.
frankwsweet 11 months ago
There is another hypothesis which he overlooked and that is the child's prenatal environment.
Haseeb2 1 year ago
@Haseeb2, that is true. I do not know if anyone yet is investigating the possibility. A prenatal hypothesis would probably have to be narrow (mother's nutrition, chemicals, etc.) in order to be testable. Fortunately, more scholars are lately taking an interest. Just Google "Ronald Ferguson" of Harvard, for instance.
frankwsweet 1 year ago
@frankwsweet Robort Sapolski of Standford emphasized this in his lectures on the Biology and Human Behavior in the section on heretibility, genes and environment. He also mentioned this in his book "Monkey Love". Another thing... there is the issue of external environment. This I think is a valid hypothesis because of what experiments done on mice have shown. I recall the case of the "Doggie Mouse" which was compared to a mouse who had been raised in an enriched environment. Thanks
Haseeb2 1 year ago