Canard DuJour
Veteran Member
@ Apostate Abe, you asked about SES vs "racial intelligence differences", not parental SES vs specific test score differences of children. The data you cite doesn't contradict what I said. If, as is the case here, blacks are paid less than whites with the same academic attainment across the SES spectrum and the lowest attainment is among low SES whites, then at any point along the y axis where both are represented (blacks being absent far right) there'll be blacks with higher attainment. It might even somewhat explain your data since blacks stand to gain less from academic attainment. That doesn't necessarily tell you anything about innate racial intelligence or contradict your cites. It means the conclusion you jump to is unwarranted and something more complex is probably going on. Even if we look purely at schoolkids' attainment vs parental SES, we couldn't "choose #1, #2, or #3" here because the lines would cross.
And, no, of course your data isn't pseudoscience. A-priori dismissal of anything at odds with the conclusion you draw from it as "extraordnary" is pseudoscience. Ignoring all the other counterxamples and counfounders is pseudoscience.
And, no, of course your data isn't pseudoscience. A-priori dismissal of anything at odds with the conclusion you draw from it as "extraordnary" is pseudoscience. Ignoring all the other counterxamples and counfounders is pseudoscience.