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So, brutally painful question for some. Sensistive types, click away.

Are race and intelligence, at least Math/English/Critical Reading intelligence, linked?

University of California, Berkeley, looked at 1.1 million applicants from 1994-2011 and found,

"More than a third of the variance in SAT scores can now be predicted by factors known at students’ birth, up from a quarter of the variance in 1994. Of those factors, moreover, race has become the strongest predictor. Rather than declining in salience, race and ethnicity are now more important
than either family income or parental education in accounting for test score differences. It
must be cautioned that these findings are preliminary, and more research is needed to determine whether the California data reflect a broader national trend."

https://www.cshe.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/shared/publications/docs/ROPS.CSHE_.10.15.Geiser.RaceSAT.10.26.2015.pdf

You can read it all, but in short--they analyzed SAT scores on 1.1 million applicants applicants, and found that among the various differences, race and ethnicity are now more important in the SAT score differences than how much money your family makes or what level of education your parents had. And for reasons I do not really grasp, race has become *more* important a role in your SAT scores, not less. According to their graph, race just in 2010 or so became more important than if your parents are high school dropouts or have masters degrees.

Keep in mind that in these studies, Asians usually always outperform caucasians on average, before you say "the SAT is skewed towards whites!"

Me, I scored about 470/800 math, 500/800 English, and 720/800 Critical Reading, way back then. White.

I hope I'm not being a burden to everyone but I'm a 20 year old community college male student just sick and tired and bottling everything up. I deal with a lot of stress from my family problems (living with my parents), job and school. I'm struggling with my current math class in community college with my highest test grade being a 67% for that class. I was never good at math to begin with but I'm taking more math classes in community college anyway to transfer to University and get a major in Software Engineering since the majority of other college degrees that doesn't require a lot of math classes are useless here in the US.

There were many times where I just felt like quitting college and just hanging myself since I'm just no use to society at all and doesn't know how to use real world common sense if it meant saving his own life. Before I enrolled in community college, I once have already attempted to enlist in the military to help my financial and family problems up a bit but was unfortunately permanently DQ'd for a very small medical reason (my amblyopia/lazy eye affecting my eye pupil movement on the check up phase in MEPS) so don't give me the military enlistment advice since that didn't work out for me either.

I've asked questions like this on GAG and the internet many times but in all honesty, I just never felt comfortable with being open with my frustrations and anger to anyone, not even to my family members (my parents can't help me worth crap). I've thought about talking to a psychologist but I don't know if I even have enough time and money for them.

Sorry if I just wasted your time, by the way.