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Not so young anymore.'s avatar

Not at all surprising. But great job. I would bet that if you drew a regression curve looking at bad outcomes for African Americans, racism would have little or no independent effect and most of the effect would be due to family structure

Steve Sailer's avatar

Here are my 2016 and 2019 columns on how the Stanford Education Data Archive shows the biggest white-black test score gaps are in liberal school districts like Berkeley:

https://www.takimag.com/article/crevasses_in_the_classroom_steve_sailer/

https://www.takimag.com/article/san-francisco-vs-frisco/

Richard Dinner's avatar

Any clue what happened to Pesta? Looks like judge is going to dismiss his lawsuit.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67021659/pesta-v-cleveland-state-university/

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Steve Sailer's avatar

Berkeley, which has a huge White-Black test score gap, busses in kids from Oakland. But it also has a history of black parents complaining that Berkeley schools are too progressive and not focused enough on basics. (Interestingly, Asians tend to stay away from Berkeley public schools.)

Evanston has a different reason for its huge White-Black gap: the last time I was there, in the 1990s, it had a micro-ghetto about 4 blocks across that had been built over 100 years ago as a servants' quarter for the mansion district of Evanston. Middle class black friends in Evanston told us that they and their peers send their kids to Catholic school to keep them away from the underclass blacks in the public schools.

San Francisco is so expensive that the only blacks that can live there tend to be in free public housing projects.

Steve Sailer's avatar

One of the smallest white-black test score gaps in the country is found at Carpenter elementary school in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. It's in an expensive neighborhood near TV and movie studios. The black population is only a few percent of the total, and they tend to be in the entertainment business (a field in which blacks are quite competitive and thus attracts top blacks). Some of the whites, in contrast, are literally grandfathered in by Proposition 13 and thus don't need to be as prosperous to afford to live there.

Spengler bro's avatar

I think another possible factor is whites in rural republican areas have lower IQs then thier counterparts in say nyc San Francisco and Los Angeles, also jews tend to be in urban areas further skewing the IQ gap

John Eckstrom's avatar

Excellent racist opinion good for you

Reinformer's avatar

Well or this show White Supremacy is good for non-caucasians or is a scam, whether you choose it bust white racista oppression narrative

Anonymous's avatar

Why didn't you use a specific model or test for school segregation, which many scholars use as an example of systemic racism?

Invoke Prejudice's avatar

So what’s your explanation for this phenomenon? Are those blacks moving to white communities smarter on average or are they are as smart but they become smarter when being surrounded by whites?

Murugapiran Natanasigamani's avatar

It could be possible you need a threshold of black to white population ratio for systemic racial prejudice to manifest. I don’t see that parameter in the data distribution. Again good work. Appreciate the effort a god read for data inclined.

forumposter123@protonmail.com's avatar

http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/city.htm

Baltimore City Blacks: 76

Baltimore County Blacks: 86

Blacks in the inner city are the dumbest blacks.

Inner cities combine inability to afford living in the suburbs with typical liberal city welfare states. It selects for the worst blacks.

Blacks that can afford to get a mortgage and move out to the suburbs/exurbs are better blacks, relatively speaking.

Conversely, in the more gentrified cities with lots of urban professionals the white mean tends to be very high. There is in a way a kind of perverse relationship. The worse the blacks are the more only UMC whites can afford to segregate away from their dysfunction, with middle class whites moving out of the suburbs to escape it.

So areas with high GOP vote share tend to be more middle class of all races, while areas with high DEM vote share tend to be highly segregated high/low coalitions.

John Rawls's avatar

i think one of the causes is the gap in between white republicans and white democrats.

Emil O. W. Kirkegaard's avatar

I imagine Noah Carl will write about it himself. After all, we have our own paper on taboos in science coming out soon (cited in their paper).