The Bell Curve revisited.

posted by The Vidiot @ 4:21 PM Permalink

This is ridiculous on its face.

WORKING-CLASS students have lower IQs than those from wealthier backgrounds and should not be expected to win places at top universities, an academic has claimed.

Bruce Charlton, an evolutionary psychiatrist at Newcastle University, has written a paper asserting the reason why fewer students from poor families are admitted to Oxford or Cambridge is not because of social prejudice, but lack of ability.

Even if you were to give any of those stupid IQ tests credence, you have to take into consideration all sorts of stuff like do the tests skew white, do the tests skew male, do the tests skew class, you know? I usually score high on those dumb things and honestly, if you knew me, that would shock you.

The more likely reason for the underrepresentation of working class kids in elite institutions has more to do with class then intelligence. Read C Wright Mills and get back to me. Bruce Charlton should be laughed out of his profession. Or better yet, he should have his IQ measured by a test that skews African American, female and working class and see how he does on that.

Labels: social science, stupid