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19 Nov 2007 12:05 pm
Race and IQ
In the end, the data demand addressing:
The New York Times told readers that when Watson implied "that black Africans are less intelligent than whites, he hadn't a scientific leg to stand on."
I wish these assurances were true. They aren't. Tests do show an IQ deficit, not just for Africans relative to Europeans, but for Europeans relative to Asians. Economic and cultural theories have failed to explain most of the pattern, and there's strong preliminary evidence that part of it is genetic. It's time to prepare for the possibility that equality of intelligence, in the sense of racial averages on tests, will turn out not to be true.
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Round up of response to Saletans columns claiming black people are born stupider than white people
Excerpt: First, see Chris Lowes comment on my earlier Saletan post for a really good set of criticisms of Saletans argument, that I missed making.
Second, before I get into the round up of other blogs, a quick clarification on my use of the words ...
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