There are different kids of intelligence, and looking at it in the abstract, it would be a miracle if each type of intelligence was equally distributed across every subset of the human population. The problem has become particular acute because the value placed on the kind of intelligence that results in good SAT scores (which is highly associated with the kind of intelligence that is most valued in today's job marketplace) has become exagerrated in the "winner-take-all" symbolic "information age" economy that we've built. Less attention should be paid to making sure that every single job classification out there perfectly mirrors the demographic profile of the gneeral population, and more attention should be paid towards reducing the consequences of the economic stratification between those job classifications.
Re: the racial distribution of violence, it's critical that we take that into account in how we respond to the allegation of police abuse. Failing to do so has resulted in thousands of unnecessary incremental murders and other violent crimes, the vast majority of the victims being black.
There are different kids of intelligence, and looking at it in the abstract, it would be a miracle if each type of intelligence was equally distributed across every subset of the human population. The problem has become particular acute because the value placed on the kind of intelligence that results in good SAT scores (which is highly associated with the kind of intelligence that is most valued in today's job marketplace) has become exagerrated in the "winner-take-all" symbolic "information age" economy that we've built. Less attention should be paid to making sure that every single job classification out there perfectly mirrors the demographic profile of the gneeral population, and more attention should be paid towards reducing the consequences of the economic stratification between those job classifications.
Re: the racial distribution of violence, it's critical that we take that into account in how we respond to the allegation of police abuse. Failing to do so has resulted in thousands of unnecessary incremental murders and other violent crimes, the vast majority of the victims being black.