Re:Does growing up poor harm brain development?
by dragonwriter on Monday May 07, 2018 @04:09PM
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> Talking about IQ among ethinicities is verboten on the left.
No, it's not. In fact, both results of studies showing such differences and the factors likely producing them are frequent matters of discussion on the left.
> It’s also axiomatic on the left that all cultures are equally effective at raising successful, healthy children.
Also not true, though the left (unlike the right) is unlikely to limit it's consideration of “culture” to a narrow set of values that parents of certain ethnic backgrounds are presumed to have or not have, and consider the sources of culture influences much more broadly than the right does.
> The German study suggests that culture matters,
It is quite consistent with the idea that physical and broad social context matters, and that broad aspects of the physical context to which various groups are selectively subjected, as well as elements of the broad US social context, are particularly harmful to and preserve the disadvantage of various historically disadvantaged groups is actually more widely accepted as established fact on the left than the things you mislabel as axiomatic.
No, it's not. In fact, both results of studies showing such differences and the factors likely producing them are frequent matters of discussion on the left.
> It’s also axiomatic on the left that all cultures are equally effective at raising successful, healthy children.
Also not true, though the left (unlike the right) is unlikely to limit it's consideration of “culture” to a narrow set of values that parents of certain ethnic backgrounds are presumed to have or not have, and consider the sources of culture influences much more broadly than the right does.
> The German study suggests that culture matters,
It is quite consistent with the idea that physical and broad social context matters, and that broad aspects of the physical context to which various groups are selectively subjected, as well as elements of the broad US social context, are particularly harmful to and preserve the disadvantage of various historically disadvantaged groups is actually more widely accepted as established fact on the left than the things you mislabel as axiomatic.