Toby said:
It is well known that non-Westerners do poorly at Western IQ tests, simply
because the design of the IQ test assumes knowledge of Western
culture.
It is well known that beginning a sentence
with "it is well known" means that you're making
it up.
In contrast, here is something that is well
known to people who know a lot about IQ tests:
"Over 80 different types/varieties of IQ tests
have been administered in over 300
different published studies, and blacks
have scored much lower than whites in
every study - one full standard deviation
usually, 15 pts., and often much worse.
Test analyses have shown that blacks
score lower than whites on every single
question on IQ tests in large samples.
The more difficult a question is (based
on how often it is answered incorrectly)
the greater is the disparity between
black and white results.
When questions are ranked according to
difficulty (most often missed) it is
found that the ordering for blacks and
whites is the same. This could not be
if there were actual cultural differences
between the two groups that affect
the way in which questions are perceived.
Not only has no one ever been able to design
an IQ test on which blacks score as high
as whites, but no one has ever been able
to design even one question on which
blacks score as well as whites.
The same can be said of the tests in regard
to the huge difference observed between
Jews and non-Jewish whites (17 points),
although there is less published data.
The differences in group IQs are real.
They are large. They are of great
social significance. The study of
and acceptance of this information
is not racism, rather it is science.
See Dr. Arthur Jensen's book `Bias in Mental
Testing' for more information."
