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Offline texasmom

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« Reply #30 on: July 25, 2007, 12:35:40 AM »
OK. I took the dang test.

I'm much smarter than I look... but not nearly as smart as I think I am.
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Offline lazs2

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« Reply #31 on: July 25, 2007, 08:54:04 AM »
chair... why would you trust the test results of a racist site like that?   I mean..  how do you know you aren't playing right into their hands?

Think of it this way...They are simply asking for race to make a curve... just like the bell curve book did..  sorry... some races are smarter than others... who knows why... it matters not.. we all know it even tho few admit it.

Now... take the real abhorent racial profiling... you go to get a loan.. they ask your race.   Why is  that?   Ask after you get the loan if they need to get stats.

They don't want stats tho.. they want affirmative action.. an evil idea.

When last asked about my race I said "what is popular for loans these days?"

"er... American indian is good" she said.  "put me down for that" I said.

"are you?"

"of course.. you aren't discriminating against me because of my race are you?  You better have some strong proof that I am not if you slander my indianess."

In your case tho... they provided a test that you could pass up with no ill effects to you..  a real protest against their "agenda" as you see it would have been to ignore the site entirely.

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« Reply #32 on: July 25, 2007, 09:19:16 AM »
Lazs, I guess I just don't see how your message is a reply to mine, it seems almost as if you missed each and every thing I said in my post.  Were you talking to someone else?
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« Reply #33 on: July 25, 2007, 10:37:25 AM »
84,68% ... 2 wrong answers. Not so bad from a foreigner answering slightly US centered questions, eh ;)


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« Reply #34 on: July 25, 2007, 12:34:22 PM »

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« Reply #35 on: July 25, 2007, 12:45:05 PM »
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« Reply #36 on: July 25, 2007, 12:55:01 PM »
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Originally posted by lazs2
In your case tho... they provided a test that you could pass up with no ill effects to you..  a real protest against their "agenda" as you see it would have been to ignore the site entirely.
lazs

it was more fun to take the test several times (more than 10 less than 20) and answer the questions all wrong. :cool:  really screw with their stats...  My purpose in the world is to be the +/-  % error rate

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« Reply #37 on: July 25, 2007, 02:23:17 PM »
chair... I guess we are even then because for the life of me...  I can't see how any of your answers are an answer to anything I have said either.

It is simple.. if you think a site has an agenda... don't participate...

With affirmative action... you are forced to participate.

How can stats be used wrong if all they are is a test and then a question as to race?   if you can see a way then you need to not participate at all.

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Offline Excel1

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« Reply #38 on: July 26, 2007, 06:33:59 AM »
lazs your missing the point. If there's no agenda then why is there  a requirement to state your race before you can perform a test that that gives a fairly decent guide of your intelligence, level of education and general knowledge to some anonymous person/organisation/government? It's not stated on that test site that I could see, as to an explanation of why they need your ethnicity but just the fact that it's a requirement to give it means there's an agenda of some sort. It may be fairly innocuous... data collection for advertising reasons (I doubt that though) or it could be used to support affirmative action, or some form of extreme social engineering or what Chairboy said. It's pretty cunning; most people probably would give their ethnicity without a second thought. But I bet if it asked for their sexual orientation as well it would be a reason to think twice about it.  And as for ignoring it because it's voluntary why give it even that much respect?  

This has been the opinion of a transsexual, Jewish, pole stripper of Asian descent with an income of $120k

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« Reply #39 on: July 26, 2007, 08:16:09 AM »
maybe I do miss the point but....

If I see that a site that asks me to answer questions has a clear agenda on at least one of them....

One that I don't like...  I would assume that the rest of the questions were rigged to suit that agenda.

If the agenda is to gather data on race and IQ... I really see nothing wrong with that at all... it is good to know.  most of us have pretty much intuited it by now but...

Look at the hate and anger that was directed at "the bell curve" it really was a simple study... less flawed than most at that... but.. the PC crowd went ape****.

Oh well...  Like I said.. if knowing anything about race and IQ is something that is too evil to seek answers to for you then I would simply suggest that you stay away from any activity that might do research on it.  

petition your woman democrat to make a law against "hate studies" .

lazs