“Certainly it isn’t so abused that it finds all immigrants are retarded.”
“On behalf of their ancestors, I hope not,” Mr. Doeton quips.
“Well, Millie,” Jack says quickly to keep Mr. Doeton’s remark from destroying his focus. “Can you give me the statistics on how blacks score on intelligence tests as compared to whites.”
“No.”
“Would it surprise you to find out that almost all blacks score as far down the scale today as our ancestors did in 1910? Although, we no longer continue to include the retarded classification. We only just assign numbers.”
“So they do,” Millie says. “Many whites score in the same lower percentiles.”
“But should we not be suspicious about a test when you have results like that? An entire race with only a few exceptions score at the bottom of the scale.”
“It do
