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Why can we talk about PISA results, comparing the performance of students in school, but we are not allowed to talk about differences in IQ? Bring this subject up, and you are immediately accused of racism. And yet. And yet, if there are substantial differences in intellectual capability, might this not explain some of the world's problems?
An update of a massive "study of studies" is underway; this article summarizes the work to date, and provides links to the work in progress. A quick summary of the answers to the questions no one dares ask:
- Eastern Asia (Japan, China): IQ around 105
- Europe/North America: IQ around 98
- Middle East: IQ around 85
- Africa: IQ around 70
In the first instance, it doesn't even matter why there are differences. They may be genetic, or disease related, or nutrition related, or something else. If these differences are real (and the evidence is pretty strong that they are), then we need to deal with them. Imagine if the low IQs in Africa turn out to be fixable - what would the impact be, if we could raise the IQ of an entire continent by 30 points?!
Sticking our collective heads in the sand, because the topic is not PC, is not going to solve any problems.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday November 03 2017, @06:44AM
as one of the oldest topics in human psychology, it's one of the most researched, and *b design* it's supposed to be the former, that's the whole point of it.
Quite why nobody's asked a bunch of Bronx intellectuals to create an innate IQ test that the don't think favours whites, and then test a bunch of Notting Hill residents with it, I don't know. The Notting Hill smarty-pants can also create an innate IQ test that doesn't favour whites, and some South Africans can be tested with that one. The South African academics can create an innate IQ test that doesn't favour whites, and people in Egypt can be tested with that. Finally, test the Bronx with an innate IQ test created by the Egyptian propeller heads. Of course, white, yellow, and whatever colour represents Ashkenazi Jews will also be testedon these same tests, and we'll see if the complaints that have been levied can be levelled.
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