A key selling point for MapReduceisitsability toabstracttheoperational parallelizationsemantics - how parallelprogrammingworks - away from the developer.
Superior mental faculties, such as language and the abilityto engage in abstract problem solving, are the sort of explanations that are currently all the rage.
But when the same test was presented simply as an abstract laboratory tool, with no relevance toability, the scores of blacks and whites were virtually identical.