for what it’s worth I lived in Washington Heights in NYC (majority Hispanic neighborhood) and went to grad school in Harlem (majority Black neighborhood), and I wasn’t victimized by a Hispanic or black man, nor was the annoyance-level crime (ie panhandlers, buskers, pickpockets) more pronounced or pernicious than it was in majority white neighborhoods like the Village or SoHo or the FiDi.
Lol, I agree with you - there's crime all over Manhattan (or anywhere), though of varying sorts - but it's funny to say (presumably) Columbia is "in Harlem." It is, but the area right around Columbia is different [and pretty damn white right around the school]. And Washington Heights, too, is an okay neighborhood, though like everywhere, pockets vary. But be real: 78th & Madison vs 145th St. are different experiences. That's down to differences in (for residents : ) money, education, ethos in the neighborhood, personal lifetime circumstances and expectations, and need/abundance; and (governmentally: ) resources, policing, relative opportunity/ ease, and relative likelihood of arrest and prosecution.
(And OT I have never heard "FiDi" in all my life, and hope I never do again. That abbreviation is dumb and should die.)
Come live in the ghetto with me, it's not nice here.
Why don't you just move? I hear that's the usual advice for people stuck in shit conditions.
IQ tests are culturally biased towards Westerners. Not intentionally but because the people putting the test together are all westerners
Not meaningfully. IQ tests are designed to assess a certain type of ability or aptitude/reasoning, not do a holistic assessment of an individual's strengths, or of ability to survive or succeed in every type of community. That a standard IQ test might not be too useful or precise in assessing native intelligence of the type the assessments are intended to assess if dealing with Afghani tribesmen or an isolated Amazonian tribe that has very different concepts of reasoning/values in thought, or even numbers, is...sort of a pointless point. And Western derivation doesn't seem to present issues reliably assessing (e.g.) Far East Asians, at least those from homes/education/culture that values logic/critical reasoning of the sort IQ tests incorporate.
The problem with focusing on "bias" is that the word itself has become so toxic and used in a way that suggests total invalidity, rather merely understanding purpose, limitations, and application. It also implies that there is no way to adapt administration, or that no one ever does. As used, it implies the assessments are both meaningless and unfair, and even that what they assess is a poor measure of anything, even in the cultures (most) where those traits are valued or indicative of high personal performance...with the "logical" outcome argument that they and their results should be outright discarded or at least minimized to irrelevance. This is a bad take. They are fit for purpose in general, for the extreme bulk of people for whom they are administered. It's a measure of certain aptitude and functionality.
...Dylan Roof because it's one of the only examples of white on black violence you could conjure up.
Are you absolutely fucking retarded?
most violence isn’t interracial but intraracial
Correct. Per the FBI, the rate of Black-on-Black homicide (in 2019) is about 78.99% of total homicides committed by Black people, and the rate of white-on-white homicide is about 87.99% of total homicides committed by white people. Overall, between those two groups, the rate of B/w homicide specifically is about 17.58% (of B-committed homicide) and the rate of w/B homicide is about 8.34% (of B-committed homicide).
Also side-notable is that the rate of white (any ethnicity)-on-Hispanic/Latino homicide (759, or 30.38% of total homicides by white people) is 5.52x the
rate of Black (any ethnicity)-on-Hispanic/Latino homicide (177, or 5.5% of total homicides by Black people). In raw number ratio, white people commit homicide vs Hispanics 4.28x (759 vs 177) more than Black people do.
ucr.fbi.gov