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    Originally Posted by Austin
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    I'm from a planet where people know how to read numbers, because:

    "7 percent of all black test takers were from families with incomes of more than $100,000. The comparable figure for white test takers is 27 percent."

    I was referring to the sports comment you made.

    I suggest you read it again, then, because I didn't make a sports comment, I made a statistics comment.

    Originally Posted by Austin
    If you know numbers, then you know a handful of well compensated athletes are just noise in the numbers.

    Ahem: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/cbs2011_total_group_report.pdf

    At 7%, 15,107 test takers were from black families making over $100k

    At 27%, 233,728 test takers were from white families making over $100k.

    The white group is nearly 15.5 times larger. So if there are a few hundred test takers in each group whose families made their money in a field where IQ and income are not directly correlated, what's the magnitude of effect they have on the scores?

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    It starts in preschool. In my community we are limited with preschools for children. The only option is Head Start. If parents have been to college and both work it goes against the child's chances to get accepted. I don't understand how a government funded program will turn away children because of parents income and education. I think that ALL children should have the chance to go, not just what the government defines as "under privileged" The older my son gets the more I realize that the children who are not "under privileged" get left behind in the system.

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