Racism among asians

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A sample of questions

 

Questions 1 - 8. Which of the following is greater, Column A or Column B?

 

Choose A if Column A is greater.

Choose B if Column B is greater.

Choose C if both values are equal.

Choose D if it cannot be determined.

 

A B

1) x is an integer less than -1

 

2) P > 1

 

3) 0 < n < 1

 

4) a < 0, b > 0 ab a + b

 

5)

c is an odd number

d is an even number

0 < c < d

 

6) The ratio of fish in Zone A

to fish in Zone B

7) Six Students take Test Q The average (mean)

of six students'

scores on Test Q The fourth highest

score on Test Q

 

8)

 

9) Fawn lives on a hill. She goes to work by bicycle at an average speed of 20 miles an hour. Work is 10 miles away. She returns home at average speed of 15 miles per hour along the same 10 mile route. How long does she spend commuting each day?

 

A) 30 minutes

B) 35 minutes

C) 40 minutes

D) 60 minutes

E) 70 minutes

 

10) Two legs of a right triangle measure 4 and 8 cm. What is a possible measure of the third leg?

 

A) cm

B) cm

C) 6 cm

D) cm

E) cm

 

I don't see what could be racially biased. Maybe Fawn should be named LaToya.

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Maybe these will paste better

 

20 Questions--25 Minutes

 

For each problem in this section determine which of the five choices is correct and blacken the corresponding choice on your answer sheet. You may use any blank space on the page for your work.

 

Notes:

You may use a calculator whenever you think it will be helpful.

Use the diagrams provided to help you solve the problems. Unless you see the words "Note: Figure not drawn to scale" under a diagram, it has been drawn as accurately as possible. Unless it is stated that a figure is three-dimensional, you may assume it lies in a plane.

 

 

 

Reference Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. In the figure above, what is the value of a?

(A) 10 (B) 20 © 28 (D) 36 (E) 45

 

2. The Rivertown Little League is divided into d divisions. Each division has t teams, and each team has p players. How many players are there in the entire league?

(A) d + t + p (B) dtp © pt / d (D) dt / p (E) d / pt

 

3. What is the value of n if 2n+1 = 32?

(A) 4 (B) 5 © 6 (D) 7 (E) 8

 

 

 

4. In the figure above, what is the value of a + b + c?

(A) 210 (B) 220 © 240 (D) 270 (E) 280

 

Year 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

Number of tournaments 4 5 10 6 9 12

 

5. The chart above shows the number of tennis tournaments that Adam entered each year from 1990 through 1995. In what year did he enter 50% more tournaments than the year before?

 

(A) 1991 (B) 1992 © 1993 (D) 1994 (E) 1995

 

6. If, for any number b, b# = b + 1 and #b = b - 1, which of the following is NOT equal to (3#) (#5)?

 

(A) (1#) (#9) (B) 7# + #9 © (4#) (#4) (D) (7#) (#3)

(E) 15# / #2

 

7. If a is a multiple of 5 and b = 5a, which of the following could be the value of a + b?

I. 60

II. 100

III. 150

 

(A) II only

(B) III only

© I and III only

(D) II and III only

(E) I, II, and III

 

8. If 3a = b and 3c = d, then bd =

 

(A) 3ac (B) 3a + c © 6a + c (D) 9ac (E) 9a+c

 

9. If r and s are two nonzero numbers and if 78(r + s) = (78 + r)s, then which of the following must be true?

 

(A) r = 78 (B) s = 78 © r + s = rs (D) r < 1 (E) s < 1

 

10. If it is now June, what month will it be 100 months from now?

 

(A) January (B) April © June (D) October (E) December

 

11. If the average (arithmetic mean) of three consecutive integers is A, which of the following must be true?

I. One of the numbers is equal to A.

II. The average of two of the three numbers is A.

III. A is an integer

 

(A) I only (B) II only © III only (D) I and II only

(E) I, II, and III

 

12. A bag contains 25 slips of paper, on each of which a different integer from 1 to 25 is written. Blindfolded, Scott draws one of the slips of paper. He wins if the number on the slip he draws is a multiple of 3 or 5. What is the probability that Scott wins?

 

(A) 1 / 25 (B) 8 / 25 © 11 / 25 (D) 12 / 25 (E) 13 / 25

 

13. If m2 = 17, then what is the value of (m + 1) (m - 1)?

 

(A) √17 - 1 (B) √17 + 1 © 16 (D) 18 (E) 288

 

14. Which of the following points lies in the interior of the circle whose radius is 10 and whose center is at the origin?

 

(A) (-9, 4) (B) (5, -9) © (0, -10) (D) (10, -1) (E) (-6, 8)

 

15. Several shoppers were surveyed at a supermarket and asked how many people were in their families and how much money they spend each week on food. The data were graphed in the following scatterplot diagram.

 

 

 

If the average weekly cost of food per person for each of the seven families, A - G, was calculated, which one would be the median?

 

(A) A (B) C © D (D) E (E) G

 

16. If p pencils cost c cents, how many pencils can be bought for d dollars?

 

(A) cdp (B) 100cdp © dp / 100c (D) 100cd / p (E) 100dp / c

 

17. If a is increased by 10% and b is decreased by 10%, the resulting numbers will be equal. What is the ratio of a to b?

 

(A) 9 /11 (B) 9 / 10 © 1 / 1 (D) 10 / 9 (E) 11 / 9

 

 

 

18. In the figure at the right, line segments AF and CF partition pentagon ABCDE into a rectangle and two triangles. For which of the following can the value be determined?

I. a + b

II. b + c

III. a + b + c + d

 

(A) II only

(B) I and II only

© II and III only

(D) I and III only

(E) I, II, and III

 

19. Which of the following CANNOT be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers?

 

(A) 17 (B) 22 © 24 (D) 26 (E) 32

 

 

 

20. In the figure above, the legs of right triangle ACB are diameters of the two semicircles. If AB = 4 what is the sum of the areas of the semicircles?

 

(A) π (B) 2π © 4π (D) 8π (E) 16π

 

Before the Williams sisters I guess a tennis question could be considered biased. Question 3 has me stumped, given the choices.

[hugo]

A must read

 

Thomas Sowell

 

Black identity has become a hot item in the movies, on television, and in the schools and colleges. But few people are aware of how much of what passes as black identity today, including "black English," has its roots in the history of those whites who were called "rednecks" and "crackers" centuries ago in Britain, before they ever crossed the Atlantic and settled in the South.

 

Saying "acrost" for "across" or "ax" for "ask" are today considered to be part of black English. But this way of talking was common centuries ago in those regions of Britain from which white Southerners came. They brought with them more than their own dialect. They brought a whole way of life that made antebellum white Southerners very different from white Northerners.

 

Violence was far more common in the South -- and in those parts of Britain from which Southerners came. So was illegitimacy, lively music and dance, and a style of religious oratory marked by strident rhetoric, unbridled emotions, and flamboyant imagery. All of this would become part of the cultural legacy of blacks, who lived for centuries in the midst of the redneck culture of the South.

 

That culture was as notable for what it did not have as for what it had. It did not emphasize education, for example, or intellectual interests in general.

 

Illiteracy was far more common among whites in the antebellum South than among whites in the North, and of course the blacks held in bondage in the South were virtually all illiterate. On into the early 20th century, Southern whites scored lower on mental tests than whites in other parts of the country, as blacks continued to do.

 

Many aspects of Southern life that some observers have attributed to race or racism, or to slavery, were common to Southern blacks and whites alike -- and were common in those parts of Britain from which Southern whites came, where there were no slaves and where most people had never seen anyone black.

 

Most Southern blacks and whites moved away from that redneck culture over the generations, as its consequences proved to be counterproductive or even disastrous. But it survives today among the poorest and least educated ghetto blacks.

 

This is a much bigger story than can fit into a newspaper column, which is why I wrote my latest book, "Black Rednecks and White Liberals."

 

White liberals come into this story because, since the 1960s, they have been aiding and abetting a counterproductive ghetto lifestyle that is essentially a remnant of the redneck culture which handicapped Southern whites and blacks alike for generations.

 

Many among the intelligentsia portray the black redneck culture today as the only "authentic" black culture and even glamorize it. They denounce any criticism of the ghetto lifestyle or any attempt to change it.

[TooDrunkToFuck]

My studies focused on the demographic gap between grades and scores. The pro-SAT studies you reference, barring the one by the people who make money from it (The College Board) basically say that people who tend to do well on it do well in school. Yeah, no shit. But I haven't seen anything to debunk the gap mentioned. Just because most people who can take tests well are bright does NOT mean that people in general who don't take standardized tests well are not.As for the bias, I've taken the SAT and know what the questions are like. As I've stated, one of the classic cases involved knowledge of a specific sport (I forget which) primarily played by upper class white males.

 

 

Let us place another ugly fact for consideration approximately 2 out of three blacks are born out of wedlock versus one white in four. Studies have shown that much of the black/white IQ gap correlates with the black/white bastardization gap. The more bastards in a race the lower their collectrive IQ. I'm sure TDFT gets all his facts from studies with a leftist agenda that try to sweep the problem "that some "black" culture encourages stupidity.

 

 

WTF are you talking about? I look at sources from those with all sorts of political biases before I come to my own conclusion. Something it doesn't seem like you do. Yes, watch a hip hop video. It does encourage stupidity, similar to the white redneck culture. And you do realize that most sociologists don't actually believe in "IQ" as an objective measure of intelligence anymore ...?

 

 

As for the intelligence gap, I agree in general. Given that white guys had hundreds of years longer to establish a decent economic situation in the US, and have had far greater civil rights until like 50 years ago, it makes sense. It's similar to women not being in exact equal places of power. Some people say that's evidence that there is still great bias at the workplace, but don't account for how long it takes to get exact equality.

 

But for another point of view, look at the graduation rates in your own links. Asians have a higher graduation rate than whites; in fact by nearly the same margin as whites compared to blacks. Actually, we tend to be behind Asians in most studies of intellect that I recall reading. Why not go on about this? Should we all model our work ethic on Asian communities?

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I don't mention Asians because it is not a political issue. You don't here complaints about income disparity among Asians and whites and how to address it. If you look at a few facts you will see that out of wedlock births among asians is much lower than the out of wedlock births among whites. Yes, we could all learn a lesson on how stable families produce children ready to take on the world from the asian community.

 

As soon as whites start demanding affirmative action programs to catch up with asians I will explain how white culture is inferior to asian culture. The out of wedlock birthrate was about 1/3rd of what it is today before LBJ's Great Society programs that led to a cycle of illegitimacy, poverty and crime.

 

ASIANS LEAD COLLEGE COMPLETION

 

Fully half of all Asian Americans aged 25 to 29 as of 1997 had gotten at least a B.A., says a U.S. Census Bureau Report. By comparison, a B.A. or higher had been obtained by 29% of Whites, 14% of African Americans and 11% of Hispanics in the 25-29 age group.

The contrast is slightly less dramatic for all persons aged 25 and over -- 42% of Asian Americans, 25% of Whites, 13% of African Americans and 10% of Hispanics. The encouraging aspect of these figures is that they reveal a clear trend toward higher percentages of college completion among all races of the current generation of Americans.

The above figures do not include foreign Asian students who make up 8% of the American college population. Counting all nationalities, Asian students make up 16% of the overall U.S. college population and 36% of the population of all California universities. By contrast Asians are only 4% of the population of the U.S. and 12% of the population of California.

 

Wonder why them SAT tests ain't biased against asians?

 

Most scientists do use IQ as a reliable measure of intelligence. Would someone argue that sports abilities is a better measure of intelligence? Dr. Sowell certainly places a strong emphasis on IQ.

 

As I've stated, one of the classic cases involved knowledge of a specific sport (I forget which) primarily played by upper class white males.

 

How convienent you forgot the question.

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Race and IQ

by Thomas Sowell (October 8, 2002)

 

Years ago, while doing research on education and IQ, I happened to be in the principal's office at a black school in Cincinnati, as he was preparing to open a large brown envelope containing the results of IQ tests that his students had taken. Before he opened the envelope, I offered to bet him that a large majority of the students with IQs over 110 would be girls.

 

He was too smart to take the bet. Studies had shown that females predominated among high-IQ blacks. One study of blacks whose IQs were 140 and up found that there were more than five times as many females as males at these levels. This is hard to explain by either heredity or environment, as those terms are usually defined, since black males and black females have the same ancestors and grow up in the same homes. Meanwhile, white males and white females have the same average IQs, with slightly more males at both the highest and lowest IQs.

 

This is just one of many unsolved mysteries that is likely to remain unsolved, because doing research on race and IQ has become taboo in many places. My own research was financed in part by a grant from a foundation that told me to remove any mention of IQ research from the activities listed in my project's application.

 

They didn't care if I used their money for that purpose but they did not want it on the record that they had financed research into race and intelligence. Many schools and boards of education also did not want it on the record that they had cooperated by supplying data for any such research. Only when assured of complete anonymity would they let me into their records.

 

A well-known black "social scientist" urged me not to do any such research. His stated reason was that it would "dignify" Professor Arthur Jensen's thesis of a genetic basis for black-white differences in IQ scores. But my own suspicion was that he was afraid that the research would prove Jensen right.

 

As it turned out, the research showed that the average IQ difference between black and white Americans -- 15 points -- was nothing unusual. Similar IQ differences could be found between various culturally isolated white communities and the general society, both in the United States and in Britain. Among various groups in India, mental test differences were slightly greater than those between blacks and whites in the United States.

 

In recent years, research by Professor James R. Flynn, an American expatriate living in New Zealand, has shaken up the whole IQ controversy by discovering what has been called "the Flynn effect." In various countries around the world, people have been answering significantly more IQ test questions correctly than in the past.

 

This important fact has been inadvertently concealed by the practice of changing the norms on IQ tests, so that the average number of correctly answered questions remains by definition an IQ of 100. Only by painstakingly going back and recalculating IQs, based on the initial norms, was Professor Flynn able to discover that whole nations had, in effect, had their IQs rising over the decades by about 20 points.

 

Since the black-white difference in IQ is 15 points, this means that an even larger IQ difference has existed between different generations of the same race, making it no longer necessary to attribute IQ differences of this magnitude to genetics. In the half century between 1945 and 1995, black Americans' raw test scores rose by the equivalent of 16 IQ points.

 

In other words, black Americans' test score results in 1995 would have given them an average IQ just over 100 in 1945. Only the repeated renorming of IQ tests upward created the illusion that blacks had made no progress, but were stuck at an IQ of 85. But we would never have known this if some researchers had not defied the taboo on studying race and IQ imposed by black "leaders" and white "friends."

 

Great man. Has studied the IQ gap seriously. IMO, the IQ difference between black men and women may reflect the absence of a father figure in many black homes. There are inferior cultures.

[Novalink]

I don't feel informed enough to comment on the racial divide in America but a quick comment about the racial issues prevalent in Australia.

 

Asian are resented by many in the communtity for their ability to out do many average Ozzies in terms of success.

 

We don't seem to be any further forward in addressing and fixing the plethora of problems that plague our indigenous population.

 

And last but not least we have ongoing problems addressing the associated issues with Muslims , Lebanese and all other ethnic groups that have taken up residence here.

 

We may call ourselves a multicultural society, but if we are, it's one that's at war with itself.

[RegisteredAndEducated]

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[Peace]

Social cliche: There is always some truth in stereotypes.

 

But about the Eastern Asian Americans. You consider them "culturally unstable" because they have a "desparate need to be Americanized." Sorry, but if you are in America, you fucking better have a desparate need to be Americanized. Don't you dare come here and subject your culture on me.

 

It's one thing to want to be americanized, and it's another thing to want to be "americanized". To come to america, immediately convert to Christianity, change your name to Paul, isn't americanization, it's an attempt to conform to some your backgrounds. To come to america, accept liberal values of freedom and democracy, and to be an active and respectful member of the community is what it means to be truely American.

 

I was born in America and I'm still Hindu, my family speaks Tamil, and my mom wears Saris on nice occasions.

 

And btw, on terms of coming to "your" country and taking up "your" culture, my sister recently picked up the Navajo language while doing Americorps. I guess that's really picking up "your" culture.

[RoyalOrleans]

And btw, on terms of coming to "your" country and taking up "your" culture, my sister recently picked up the Navajo language while doing Americorps. I guess that's really picking up "your" culture.

 

The Navajos, et. al., all wanted to be Americanized. They just didn't know it at the time.