These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people from passing (2011)

Re:These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people fro... by DonHopkins on Saturday October 07, 2017 @02:01PM (#15424845)

I remember having to ask the teacher to explain a word problem that involved a baseball player hitting "a double" and "a triple", because I had no clue what that meant. That test discriminated against nerds who don't give a shit about baseball.

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Re:These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people fro... by dredmorbius on Saturday October 07, 2017 @06:34PM (#15426055)

Sports questions were added to IQ tests to make them harder for women, according (if memory serves) to a BBC documentary on stupidity.

(Fairly fascinating, though packed sufficiently with examples of its topic to make it painful to watch.)

http://www.earthprotect.com/index.php/media-gallery/mediaite...

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Re:These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people fro... by DonHopkins on Saturday October 07, 2017 @09:45PM (#15426612)

Drat, that video is not available. (At least not in my area.) But I'll dig around for it now that I know the title. Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ82lJkR-OQ

>This documentary about stupidity tells us the history of the word "moron" ...

That's so relevant now that we all know the Secretary of State called the President of the United States a "Fucking Moron", and nobody challenged or disagreed with him, because they all knew he was right.

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Re:These problems were designed to prevent Jewish people fro... by dredmorbius on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:15AM (#15426953)

Yeah, I'm aware the video itself isn't available. I'd run across it on YouTube a while back, though that version is also down. I've not found a canonical link via the BBC yet though I'd expect there is one.

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