Critic of Immigration Proposal Cited Lower I.Q. of Immigrants in Dissertation

IbelieveIcanFly · 05-08-2013, 07:37 PM

Wow. So "All men are created equal," except some race, ex Hispanics, are permanently more stupid than the white. Amazing.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...-dissertation/

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A co-author of a new Heritage Foundation study highly critical of the Senate’s bipartisan immigration proposal also wrote a doctoral dissertation in which he argued that immigrants generally had an I.Q. that was “substantially lower than that of the white native population.”

Jason Richwine, who joined the Heritage Foundation in 2012 as a senior policy analyst after receiving his doctorate in public policy from Harvard University in 2009, focused his dissertation, “I.Q. and Immigration Policy,” on his view that the lower intelligence of immigrants should be considered when drafting immigration policy.

A summary of Mr. Richwine’s dissertation, first reported by The Washington Post, says:

“The statistical construct known as IQ can reliably estimate general mental ability, or intelligence. The average IQ of immigrants in the United States is substantially lower than that of the white native population, and the difference is likely to persist over several generations. The consequences are a lack of socioeconomic assimilation among low-IQ immigrant groups, more underclass behavior, less social trust, and an increase in the proportion of unskilled workers in the American labor market. Selecting high-IQ immigrants would ameliorate these problems in the U.S., while at the same time benefiting smart potential immigrants who lack educational access in their home countries.”
In a section titled “The Immigrant I.Q. Deficit,” Mr. Richwine writes, “Immigrants living in the U.S. today do not have the same level of cognitive ability as natives.”

He concludes that section with the belief that Hispanics are not likely to catch up to their non-Hispanic counterparts.

“No one knows whether Hispanics will ever reach I.Q. parity with whites, but the prediction that new Hispanic immigrants will have low-I.Q. children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against,” he writes. “From the perspective of Americans alive today, the low average I.Q. of Hispanics is effectively permanent.”

He argues that I.Q. should be used as a “selection factor” in admitting immigrants into the country, and he says that he is unsure whether “the deficit” is a factor of genes, environment, or both.

“Today’s immigrants are not as intelligent on average as white natives,” he writes in his concluding section. “The I.Q. difference between the two groups is large enough to have substantial negative effects on the economy and on American society.”

His assertions quickly drew attention in the closely watched immigration fight on Wednesday, and the Heritage Foundation immediately sought to distance itself from the academic paper.

“This is not a work product of the Heritage Foundation,” Mike Gonzalez, vice president of communications for the organization, said in an e-mail statement. “Its findings in no way reflect the positions of the Heritage Foundation. Nor do the findings affect the conclusions of our study on the cost of amnesty to the U.S. taxpayer.”

The Heritage Foundation study is at the center of a split among conservatives about how to proceed on immigration, and a similar study helped kill earlier efforts at an immigration overhaul. The new study concluded that the plan would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion, by calculating that immigrants would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits and services, while paying only $3.1 trillion in taxes. It has already come under significant scrutiny and criticism, including from prominent conservatives like Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida and an author of the immigration legislation.

Mr. Richwine is no stranger to controversy. In a 2012 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, in response to a fight over collective bargaining in Wisconsin, Mr. Richwine argued that public workers were overpaid.

“When the public pay debate began to simmer two years ago, we were among the few analysts to show that many public employees — federal, state and local, including public school teachers — are paid more than what their skills would merit in the private economy,” he wrote. “Our core insight was that public-sector pensions are several times more generous than typical private-sector plans, but this generosity is obscured by accounting assumptions that allow governments to contribute far less to pension plans than private employers must.”

He also has written previously about how he believes I.Q. and immigration are intertwined. In a 2009 article in Forbes, Mr. Richwine held up Indian-Americans as “the model minority.”

Task_1539 · 05-08-2013, 07:40 PM

50 years from now people will see this and laugh at the buffoon he is.

2Face · 05-08-2013, 07:50 PM

Wow this one takes the prize. It's just incredible. These are extremely desperate attempts at derailing what is shaping up to be a great compromise between the GOP and Democrats on CIR.

IbelieveIcanFly · 05-08-2013, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by 2Face

Wow this one takes the prize. It's just incredible. These are extremely desperate attempts at derailing what is shaping up to be a great compromise between the GOP and Democrats on CIR.

It's actually great for us that he wrote this nonsense. You lose all credibility once the people realize that the Heritage are nothing but outright racists. They don't like immigrants because we will contaminate their "high IQ gene pool."

Laterlater · 05-08-2013, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Task_1539

50 years from now people will see this and laugh at the buffoon he is.

The conclusion is already considered synonymous with the height of absurdity with those actually close to the field and literature.

The 'achievement gap' and its prima facia conjunction to race and ethnicity, which is here imperfectly conceptualized and measured by the construct IQ (not the same as a true IQ test*), or educational attainment, has already, repeatedly and copiously, demonstrated to recede into insignificance under regressional analysis by innumerable sociologist and psychologist connected to the field.

In other word, race and ethnicity are not significantly correlated with IQ or educational attainment as compared to other factors, e.g., local school initiatives, cultural resources, etc.

In fact, the question and consequent conclusions of any supposed relation between race and intelligence might be said to have very little scientific value, on the grounds of that it has no social value, except in the context and presuppositions of a racist society in which individuals are dragooned into a racial category and are viewed first not as individuals with their own idiosyncrasies and particularities, but representatives of their category, etc.

dreamy14 · 05-08-2013, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by IbelieveIcanFly

It's actually great for us that he wrote this nonsense. You lose all credibility once the people realize that the Heritage are nothing but outright racists. They don't like immigrants because we will contaminate their "high IQ gene pool."

If by that, you mean honey boo boo......sure!

Severity · 05-08-2013, 08:43 PM

Agree with ibelieveicanfly
Its not just about him, people will also see that anyone that takes that idea half serious is a racist. Even if immigrants had a lower IQ, they more than make up for with determination and hard work. Even if.

Pluribus · 05-08-2013, 08:52 PM

But if I'm white and an immigrant, where do I stand?

VeryNicePerson1 · 05-08-2013, 09:18 PM

lol...

dado123 · 01:08 PM

This is such a LOW BLOW, lets bring up all the white trailer trash that all they do is leach off the government, its an inconvenient truth for this study.

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