Does Race Equal Smartness? Paul Escobar August 24, 2012 Humanities MCLA 8th Grade Does Race Equal Smartness?

Tezkatlipoka - Self Reflection The questions that we were posed with were , who has knowledge , what knowledge is important , and who decides what is being put into 8th grade books ? My question was “Do people think certain races are smarter “ I chose this question because I thought it was interesting to see what people were going to say and what the results would be.

Quetzalkoatl - Precious Knowledge - Literature Review Back in ancient times they believed that your smartness came from either your head size or it was just a gene throughout your family . Galton believed that the smartness ran through the families phrenology. Scientists tried to prove that certain races had larger brains. Binet is a man from the 1900's and he was the creater of the IQ test , it is meant to test the intelligence of anyone . Stereo type-threats are “the event of negative stereo type of a group. Today's smartness is all based on test and those who can take them .

Huiztlilopochtli - The Will to Act My research question was “Are certain races smarter than others ?” I did interviews with 7th graders they were about 11 or 12 years of age . MY results were pretty interesting and predicting here are the results : for question 1 we got that 70% of the students said that Hispanics were more likely to join a gang , for the second question we got that : all 20 students that we interview said that Asians and Hispanics are the smartest . Lastly on out last question we got that 8 of students agreed that Asians were more likely to succeed in school.

Xipe Totek - Transformation My finding are transforming because they benefit the Asians and making the African American's not feel smart .

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