Quote: (07-06-2014 01:49 PM)pants Wrote:
Found this study about intelligence among Romas. They are obviously challenged.
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This is the first study of which we are aware to provide a comprehensive estimate of the IQ of an adult Roma. We found an IQ of 70 on both the Raven's Standard and the Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices, as well as on four “executive function” tests. The Roma sample was large (N = 323) and the results held up over a two year test period, for both younger and older age groups, for both sexes, across three communities in- cluding Drenovac where the Roma speak the majority language and are adapted to Serbian cultural norms, as well as across several comparison groups such as Ser- bian preschoolers, White, Indian, Colored, and Black South African high school students, and Black South African undergraduates.
And after reading it some of my anger toward this group diminished, because its hard to be that angry at idiots. I´m just really unsure how we are gonna integrate this group into society. Seriously, how are we? Giving them free higher education might be worth a try, but if they average an IQ of 70. I think its pretty safe to say these won't be the leaders of society anytime soon. What other options are there? Think institutions agains child abuse should watch this group very carefully, as many of them force their children to go stealing.
I don't have enough time to look into that source right now but I will later. Anyway, members of a racial group having a low IQ isn't necessarily indicative of an innate difference in intelligence between that group and the general population - children who've grown up in poverty have a significantly lower IQ, everything else taken into account. Presumably this has a lot to do with material and educational deprivation.
Imagine two identical twins are brought up in two houses, one a typical upper-middle class household and the other adopted by Roma. You have every reason to expect a huge difference in IQ by the time they're adults.