Comments on: Region matters, don't you forget it

By: Naheed Banu

Naheed Banu — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:00:11 +0000

Region does matter. It has to do something with the Geographical distribution too, it will be interesting if one conducts a study even in differential phonetics b/w North and South people. The dialect, the intelligence, the nature all varies. Consider any country, divide it into North and South and you may find similarity. Is it Genetic too, division according to equator????

By: ziel

ziel — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:15:19 +0000

FYI – I added a graph of the b/w reading gap by state within region to the above link. The regional differences aren’t visually arresting by any means, but there are discernible patterns.

By: ziel

ziel — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:44:50 +0000

I looked at the 2009 NAEP results a few months back and found that generally the black/white gap grows as the white scores increase. For example, black 8th graders in Mass. scored higher than white 8th graders in W.V. in math, but the b/w gap is pretty small, while the gap in Mass. is rather gaping indeed. I didn't think to look at it by region. Texas, though, stood out in having well above average scores with a below average b/w gap.

By: Steve Sailer

Steve Sailer — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:36:20 +0000

The difference in imprisonment rates between blacks and whites is narrowest in the South, and highest in the old Progressive upper Midwest: Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. (Washington DC, of course, has an even more vast ratio of black to white imprisonment rates.)

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