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It serves as a distraction from the legally relevant question of whether or not cognitive and other tests on which Non-Asian Minorities (NAMs) due worse than whites and Asians are, prima facie, racially biased predictors.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010
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Women and NAMs (non Asian minorities) are not getting more powerful, only more visible.
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NAMs have lower IQs on average than whites or Asians, and consequently do worse, on average, in school.
Matthew Yglesias » How Realistic Are Obama’s College Graduation Targets 2009
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NAMs have lower IQs on average than whites or Asians, and consequently do worse, on average, in school.
Matthew Yglesias » How Realistic Are Obama’s College Graduation Targets 2009
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America is 33% NAMs (Non-Asian Minorities, e.g., blacks and Hispanics) who earn less, on average, than whites in Asians in every mixed-race country on earth.
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If a school has an average test score of X and is 10% NAMs, than the average test score of its white and Asian is non-trivially higher than X, since the average NAM score is significantly below X. Steve Sailer Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals 2009
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It serves as a distraction from the legally relevant question of whether or not cognitive and other tests on which Non-Asian Minorities NAMs due worse than whites and Asians are, prima facie, racially biased predictors.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010
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The unmentionable truth is that a fair test of a complicated subject will always tend — on average — to put NAMs at the bottom.
Sotomayor On Ricci 2009
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The unmentionable truth is that a fair test of a complicated subject will always tend — on average — to put NAMs at the bottom.
Sotomayor On Ricci 2009
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The unmentionable truth is that a fair test of a complicated subject will always tend — on average — to put NAMs at the bottom.
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Such approaches, known as NAMs — short for ‘novel alternative methods’ or ‘new approach methodologies’ — remove the ethical problems associated with experimenting on animals.
Alternatives to animal testing are the future — it’s time that journals, funders and scientists embrace them Todd J. Herron 2025
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