0.9cm = roughly 1/3 a inch a month......
Considering the average growth rate is between 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch a month, that's right in line....
I agree, except I believe it's never too late. The opportunity is still there to bring this topic up again and present a different view.
Last night in class she had the nerve to open her mouth and tell the class that black folks hair do not grow as fast as white/spanish folks hair. (mind you....she is black with apl hair)
How could she put her race down like that!?
We all on this board know that it is not a matter of hair growth that causes our race (black) to not have "long hair" but it is a matter of retaining what you grow! Chemicals play a part in that! As well as dryness and coarseness. Everybody's hair normally grow .5 inches a month.
You should have seeeen the way the other races got amped and started flipping their hair around for the remainder of the night!
I know we can grow our hair long, I just felt she totally discredited us.
She is a ignorant ***** for thinking like that.
Random rant ova...
wow! i would have had to bit my tongue (taking into consideration she is your prof) but she obviously knows nothing about hair growth! what program does she teach? please don't tell me medicine or science...cause her ass needs to fired! 
Considered IQ tests are based on Western Thought, I'm not suprised that Africans got a lower score - that doesn't mean a thing about their actual intelligence. *shrug* They are notoriously falliable tests.
As far as the hair study, if it is that unsettling/insulting to accept that the avarage African grows hair slower than other races, don't accept it....or fund a study of your own.
erplexed If it is settling to you to look at a study and accept it for whatever reasons of your own personal hair growth, then that is cool but I can't.
They actually did other "tests" on middle-class African-Americans or "well-to-do Blacks" and the results were the same. They scored the same as African-Americans in less than perfect socioeconomic situations which was 85, while whites at the same socioeconomic status scored around 110. Now, if I were to accept this as truth without critically thinking about the factors which may not have been equal or caused the results to differ, I would think: "Well, there it is. Scientific "studies" have proven that blacks just aren't genetically smarter than whites."
But because as an individual who loves to think critically I may ask,
"Hmmm, what were the eating habits of or diets of these individuals?"
"Did any of these kids ever take an IQ test before which may have prepared them more for the test or exposed them to it more?"
"Were the kids living in a stable home or was there some type of trauma such as a divorce going on?
These are the questions we should ask before accepting anything as truth. Asking questions are important factors in critical thinking as we know every year, scientists always come up with different "studies" proving something (or rather "nothing"). One year we can drink coffee and our life span is increased 5 years and the next, coffee will give you cancer.
So, yes it unsettling that people can come up with these studies with no mentioning of important information/factors. I guess Loreal just expects the people who read this study to accept it as truth without critically thinking and maybe for some people, they are right. Furthermore, I don't accept it because I am African-American and my hair grows a little more than .5 inches per month;I guess I can attribute that to my non-black blood (according to this study).
I have no personal reasons to feel slighted but when I see a study generalize a group of people who look like me, I have to ask, "What is next?" What other differences are they going to find? Perhaps, next it will be that we aren't truly human but just above apes and just below humans. Ooops, I forgot, they already tried that and it worked;remembering slavery for 400 years.
I suspect we are talking at cross-purposes, so I'm gonna say one or two more things and then leave this be - the information is here for people to see and interpet as they please......
1) What a study might/might not indicate - esp. with such a small study group (19 people) and taking into account averages, tends to have little to no impact on a specific person in a specific group. So, saying that a study has shown that africans on average grow 1/3 of an inch a month doesn't say anything about a specific african (or person of african descent). That's just the nature of studies - any study that states XYZ is 'average' doesn't limit (maximum or minimum) the potential of a individual.
True, it doesn't limit the maximum or minimum but people within that subject group often don't fall within the outliers. They are usually the average. Just like most African Americans are not a 1 type hair but prob. fall somewhere between 3a-4z.
2) IQ tests are flawed - period - but then, I guess since other studies showed that, we shouldn't trust them, either, eh?
Maybe we should, maybe we shouldn't? I would have to know why these tests prove that IQ tests are flawed. I never heard that.
You can find a study that 'proves' or 'disproves' anything. Personally, a study that 'proves' that africans on average grow hair slower means NOTHING to my hair journey - averages don't translate to individuals..... I was just offering that information to demonstrate WHY and HOW the Ph.D professor wasn't talking outta her neck/lying without reason/purposefully putting her race down as the OP implied.
*shrug*
It may not mean anything to your hair journey but there are many people lurking and newbies or just plain ole' skeptical that will take this study with and run with it. When you post a study like this, in this thread, it seems as if you agree with what her professor was saying or somehow are validating her opinions as facts. That's why I am very careful when stating certain things about studies because a person already teetering on the borderline of believing in black hair growth can take this and run with it. But then again, we can't worry about what everyone will do, right?
I wouldn't call the professor out ya'll - the average growth rate of african peoples IS slower than the average growth rate of Asian and Caucasoid peoples - that's been researched and demonstrated.....
Just like the average height of Asian people is less than the average height of Caucasoid people - still doesn't stop some Asian people from being tall.
The fact that our hair grows slower won't stop us from having long hair, either - nor does it mean that our hair doesn't grow faster than the white girl across the room from you - averages rarely play out perfectly once narrowed down to individuals.
I agree, Also our hair grows 1/4 an inch each month. It only grows 1/2 and or more if your healthier or your getting all the vitamins or whatever you need. My hair only grows 1/4 an inch, but when I was eating healthier and working out it was growing between 1/2 and 3/4 an inch
I wouldn't call the professor out ya'll - the average growth rate of african peoples IS slower than the average growth rate of Asian and Caucasoid peoples - that's been researched and demonstrated.....
Just like the average height of Asian people is less than the average height of Caucasoid people - still doesn't stop some Asian people from being tall.
The fact that our hair grows slower won't stop us from having long hair, either - nor does it mean that our hair doesn't grow faster than the white girl across the room from you - averages rarely play out perfectly once narrowed down to individuals.
erplexed
maybe i am unrealistic or ignorant but i really don't believe that.
I wouldn't call the professor out ya'll - the average growth rate of african peoples IS slower than the average growth rate of Asian and Caucasoid peoples - that's been researched and demonstrated.....
Just like the average height of Asian people is less than the average height of Caucasoid people - still doesn't stop some Asian people from being tall.
The fact that our hair grows slower won't stop us from having long hair, either - nor does it mean that our hair doesn't grow faster than the white girl across the room from you - averages rarely play out perfectly once narrowed down to individuals.
