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Poor people have lower IQs than rich people...
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
...so we shouldn't expect them to win top places at universities. At least, that's what this British evolutionary psychiatrist is saying:
| quote: | The working classes have lower IQs than those from wealthier backgrounds and should not be expected to win places at top universities, an academic has claimed.
Bruce Charlton, reader in evolutionary psychiatry at Newcastle University, suggested that the low numbers of working-class students at elite universities was the "natural outcome" of IQ differences between classes.
In a paper shown to the Times Higher Education magazine, Dr Charlton questioned the Government's drive to get more students from poor backgrounds into top universities like Oxford and Cambridge.
He said: "The UK Government has spent a great deal of time and effort in asserting that universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge, are unfairly excluding people from low social class backgrounds and privileging those from higher social classes.
"Yet in all this debate a simple and vital fact has been missed: higher social classes have a significantly higher average IQ than lower social classes."
The fact that so few students from poor families get into Oxbridge is not down to "prejudice" but "meritocracy", he said.
The Government criticised Dr Charlton's comments. Higher education minister Bill Rammell said: "These arguments have a definite tone of 'people should know their place'.
"There are young people with talent, ability and the potential to benefit from higher education who do not currently do so. That should concern us all."
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, said: "It should come as little surprise that people who enjoy a more privileged upbringing have a better start in life.
"It is up to all of us to ensure that not having access to the social and educational benefits that money provides is not a barrier to achieving one's full potential." |
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/2...iq-6323e80.html |
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| Ian |
| people like this make me ashamed to be english. what a jackass. |
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| Meat187 |
| Intelligent people are more likely to produce intelligent offspring, and are also more likely to earn a lot of money. So, at first sight, his thesis doesn't sound like so much bull. |
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| Ania_xox |
Pretty stupid.
Definitely not the case for all families (mine is an exception for example) but low-income families tend to have higher stress levels in the house and are not the best environment for a child to gain a strong sense of self-worth which would encourage them to strive for something greater in life. I'm totally generalizing here, but I have seen it happen countless times. This, however, has nothing to do with a child's potential - but if they are never taught the motivation to achieve something greater in life, then this potential never comes to fruition. It's honestly one of life's greatest tragedies in my opinion - it's like the person becomes lost, like a little death I suppose.
This is why we all love rags-to-riches stories and why we love to see the underdog win. This Dr. Charlton dude needs to watch Cinderella again and stfu with this ridiculous theory. |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
people like this make me ashamed to be english. |
I thought that was because of England's terrible heritage of sporting failures that you where ashamed?
No matter.
Soon... we will legalise the hunting of hobo's with hounds, horses and shotguns Ian! |
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| PHALPAX |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
Bull. |
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| Dervish |
| More ignorant maybe, less intelligent... who knows? He wouldn't have published this without facts. |
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| Thomas Aquinas |
| Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
It is harder to achieve academically if you attend a working class school, speaking from the experience of someone who went to school in a ty ex-mining town plagued by heroin. Teachers at my school used to spend more time controlling the students than teaching. Now I'm at uni I'm surrounded by people who went to private schools and achieved better grades than me even though they aren't smarter.
However... I thought the whole point of IQ is that it had nothing to do with education and similar factors of "intelligence"? Without any logical argument or cited study to back up his claim, this guy sounds like a bit of an elitist prick to me. |
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| mickeymarley |
Well I am as dumb as a and I have a pile of money!!
So Dr Brucey can suck my fella!!!!!! He must be poor the silly c**t |
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| Ibizadreamer AG |
| ania is beautiful..beautiful |
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