re: Black women are the most educated group

Well you didn't ask a straight question. You asked if Lebron is intelligent. For those of us that follow the NBA, he prob has the highest basketball IQ in the league.

Are you asking me if he'd do well on the Science Reasoning section of the ACT?

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For those of us that follow the NBA, he prob has the highest basketball IQ in the league.

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How could you possibly think you are qualified to make that statement?

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Why would it be inadequate if I spent X per pupil in a black school but adequate if I spent 80% of X in a white school?

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One is dilapidated and neglected, the other isn’t. One has more hungry kids that qualify for free lunch than the other. One is a lot more likely to need new books and probably renovations/technology upgrades than the other

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Why would it be inadequate if I spent X per pupil in a black school but adequate if I spent 80% of X in a white school? That's a strange retort on your part. In fact, it's pretty much flagrantly insulting to blacks.

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Well easy, because if one school is older, needs more repairs, is overcrowded, has different services and is giving out different numbers of services, cost of living, any number of costs really.

Basic finaces man... if your debits > (it means greater than) credit, You just don't have enough regardless of how much you're getting.

It's not much different than why the amount paid for my utility bill might be inadequate than the amount paid for the utility bill at the superdome. Gosh, I hope I didn't insult Drew Brees.

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CLEARLY, the HS graduates were more educated unless the definition of the word has zero to do with accumulating actual knowledge.

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While your anecdotal example comparing a terrible college to good high schools does show its possible for high schoolers to do better on a high school-level test (the ASVAB is not exactly the ARE or LSAT) than poorly educated college students that were taken from the bottom rung of college attendees (NSU has unbelievably low standards for admission), it doesn’t mean that the ASVAB should be used as the measuring stick.

I was a solid high school student in Louisiana (3.2 GPA, but 31 ACT). If you just looked at my ACT relative to many others, you might say I was smart, but that’s on high school material. Subsequently, I matured through my graduate degree and by the time I went back for my master’s I would say I was pretty well educated.

Plenty of high schoolers get over a 31, but unless they’ve also gone through the other 7 years of school I did I would argue that doesn’t make them more educated (yet). The point is, though your example is an extreme, it’s very possible for a great high schooler to beat a college graduate on a high school test while still being less educated. (And yes, NSU is still terrible)

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While your anecdotal example comparing a terrible college to good high schools does show its possible for high schoolers to do better on a high school-level test (the ASVAB is not exactly the ARE or LSAT) than poorly educated college students that were taken from the bottom rung of college attendees (NSU has unbelievably low standards for admission), it doesn’t mean that the ASVAB should be used as the measuring stick.

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There is basically NO MEASURING STICK of testing actual knowledge where blacks are not dead last. ZERO. ZILCH. NADA.

So, managing to crawl through the doors of whatever college will take you in is NOT a measure of "education".

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I was a solid high school student in Louisiana (3.2 GPA, but 31 ACT). If you just looked at my ACT relative to many others, you might say I was smart, but that’s on high school material. Subsequently, I matured through my graduate degree and by the time I went back for my master’s I would say I was pretty well educated.

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This is like pointing out that some 3 star players turn out great and some 5 stars bust.

Yeah. But you give me a team of all 5 stars and my twin coach a team of all 3 stars and I'm kicking my twin's arse with regularity!

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(And yes, NSU is still terrible)

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But EVERYONE who graduates there is counted as "educated".

But it goes beyond just the school. I'm sorry. Even within LSU. If you gave tests of general knowledge the sociology department and then, after that, to the business school kids, the business school kids are gonna kick the sociologist's asses.

And B school kids aren't even the cream!

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One word: Predictable.

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Yes, it's easy to predict that racism will be called out.

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You are proving my point.

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No you use common data sets to compare. For a speed WR, you gauge data set 1. If you use worse comparable scores, just to get more white speed WRs in the league. . .did you make the speed WRs better?

So for Engineering colleges, you use data set 1.

You don't use dataset 1 for whites and asians, then use a degrading qualifying data set for other races without degrading the body as a whole.

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"Best" is very difficult to quantify objectively.

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You use common data.

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Mortality measures only pertains to a small subset of surgeons.

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I am assuming we agree that the discussion is regarding life-saving surgery. . .hence mortality rates.

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You're not making any sense.

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