- Kids -In reference to the IQ test.
I think you're right on the 'ol money. Historically, the intelligence quotient was developed in France to place kids in appropriate levels of learning in grammer school. From there, things got really crazy. Most importantly, is how the intelligence qoutient has been used in the past century to discriminate against hispanics and blacks during the sixties. In refrence to you example of the African who has never seen a car or television, a result of a particular culture, the same example applies to one I saw on a documentary. A black kid answered yes to a question that asked him if he was in a situation to fight, is fighting right or wrong. he answered right. He got the question wrong. However, the kid was from a tough neighborhood from Queens and had to fight on many occasions to get to or from school. In this reference, the kid is right. it is smart to defend yourself. What alarms me is how crazy the IQ tests have gone. None.
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