Is Decline in SAT Scores Simply Due to Statistical Correctness?

When Washington Post writer Nick Anderson recently reported “SAT scores at lowest level in 10 years, fueling worries about high schools,” he generated a firestorm of comments (about 1700 so far)  that reveal how our trusted reliance on statistics can actually hide the truth about racial matters.  When Anderson said that “It is difficult to pinpoint a reason for the decline in SAT scores,” commenter George Hetzel took issue:

    No it isn’t. As the demographics of the American student body changes, the educational metrics will change to reflect the new population. As the white portion of the population decreases and is replaced mostly by lower IQ groups, the SAT averages will continue to decline. Want them to stop declining? Import more Chinese and less Mexicans. Or just stop importing tens of millions of third-world peasants altogether.  

     We see the same expressions of mystery in stories about how Americans are getting shorter. What could it be? Poor nutrition? Gravity increasing? Global Warming? The fact that Mestizos are on average much shorter than northern Europeans never occurs to our pool of award-winning journalists.   If Nick Anderson had done better on his SAT, he would have figured this out.

        Purging  journalism of all but politically correct perspectives about race distorts the truth, doesn’t it? Those who most need help see murkiness instead.

     Similarly, nightly news shows a kindly Europe welcoming desperate refugees from the war-torn Middle East.  Television footage focuses on those who speak English and portray Western good looks.  Missing entirely are the sub-Saharan blacks who don’t fit into the “plantation model” of laborers and servants that Europeans have in mind.