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I have not read the study in its entirety but I can tell you this, all studies done by European-Americans about any black nations should be viewed with skepticism.

They may be only 80% accurate.

Those studies usually reflect the biases of the researchers.

For example when the Germans wanted to portray the Jews as a group of people who were not fit to live, they concluded in their numerous studies that Jesus the brown skin Jew was blond with blue eyes. I read the Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, in which its authors Charles Alan Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein a Harvard professor (who died fortunately without reaping all those millions of dollars), tried to portray the black race as being inferior in intelligence and that genetics determine crime and teen pregnancy bla bla. They even stated that the native Americans were more superior in intelligence than blacks because they are the descendants of Asians.

(That Asian descendants bouhaha is only true for a certain percentage of natives Americans) They conveniently forgot to mention that all the intelligent test given so far (all not a few) have concluded that the Asian students were more intelligent they scored a lot higher than the white students) but those studies also quick to mention that culture and the fact that Asian parents encouraged their children to excel in education was the cause of such high scores.

They usually quickly mention that the black students and Latinos scored lower than the whites.

Those intelligent respectable people never mention that they were testing white middle class students while most of their studies where done on inner city blacks and Latinos from poorer social economic status ( they did not target and test middle class blacks or blacks from Latino and Caribbean countries nor blacks from recent migration from the continent of Africa) So Murray and Herrnstein wanted us to believe that black people in general were inferior in intelligence and concluded that the Government of the USA should not have all those social programs to help them survive so they can eventually die off. So please do not make the mistake of repeating like parrots the findings of some study done about Haiti and its people.

There are myriads of books and articles written by Haitians about Haiti and Haitians, I suggest you read those instead than draw your own conclusion.

I see where some of you got your Petion not being a visionary ideas from which is written even under the "history of Haiti" on the right side of this blog. That's a shame! A man who was not a slave (most mulattos where never slaves.

There was a law to prevent them from being made slaves) but had of grand vision of freeing every black person who were made slaves in the Americas.

One of the founding founders of Haiti and its constitutions.

Shame on all of you for propagating such lies about a Haitian hero. There is no substantiating evidence that Petion had any part of Dessaline's demise.

Petion sent a delegation with money to bury Dessaline.

Dessaline was well known for his cruelty and he was on his way to put down a rebellion that day in Port-au-Prince.

Stop criticizing those who gave their all for Haiti.

Here is an exert from that bell curve, those who are interested can research it further.

""The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (1994) (ISBN 0-02-914673-9) is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book that Charles Murray wrote with the late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein.

Its central point is that intelligence is a better predictor of many factors including financial income, job performance, unwed pregnancy, and crime than one's parents' socio-economic status or education level.

Also, the book argued that those with high intelligence (the "cognitive elite") are becoming separated from the general population of those with average and below-average intelligence, and that this was a dangerous social trend.

Much of the controversy erupted from Chapters 13 and 14, where the authors write about the enduring differences in race and intelligence and discuss implications of that difference.The debate about whether and how much genes and environment have to do with ethnic differences remains unresolved.

The book's title comes from the bell-shaped normal distribution of IQ scores.

The normal distribution is the limiting distribution of a random quantity which is the sum of smaller, independent random phenomena.

The message in the title is that IQ scores are normally distributed because a person's intelligence is the sum of many small random variations in genetic and environmental factors.

Shortly after publication, large numbers of people rallied both to criticize and defend the book. Some critics denounced the book and its authors as supporting scientific racism.

A number of books were written in response, to criticize The Bell Curve.

Those books included The Bell Curve Debate, which contains essays that respond to the controversial issues raised in The Bell Curve.

Jacque Laroche, March 29 2008, 6:20 PM

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