Reference no: EM131741797

Question: A friend reads in her Introduction to Psychology textbook about a minority group in Japan, the Burakumin, who are racially the same as other Japanese people but are viewed as outcasts because their ancestors were employed in positions that involved the handling of dead animals (e.g., butchers). In Japan, the text reported, mean IQ scores of Burakumin were 10 to 15 points below mean IQ scores of other Japanese. In the United States, where Burakumin experienced no discrimination, there was no mean difference (from Ogbu, 1986, as reported in Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2003). Your friend says to you: "Wow-when I taught English in Japan last summer, I had a Burakumin student. He seemed smart; perhaps I was fooled." What should your friend consider about the two distributions, the one for Burakumin people and the one for other Japanese people?