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The black-white IQ gap has been almost entirely explained by controlling for SES and other factors. I used to think the same thing. But when I actually spent some time reading and …

Intelligence is certainly very complicated. For the sake of this discussion, I was taking intelligence to be "intelligence as defined/measured by IQ tests". Perhaps I was being slo…

lexlibra's comment is lame ... People who advocate conclusions for which the evidence is weak merely lead one away from the truth I'm curious what was lame about the comment? The e…

maybe it's because I live in Texas or maybe because I'm a minority, but I sense more hostility from whites towards blacks than vice versa My experience as a white person living in …

Of course. The original post was dealing with averages, and that's what I was trying to explain.

I don't doubt that environment plays a role. And note that the paper you cite did not rule out genetics, and I think he quite overstated the conclusion based on the evidence presen…

I guess I was being rhetorical. The fact is, you can't say these things in America without risking significant career damage.

I agree. I think that's why so people ( including me once upon a time) want to avoid talking about genetic explanations for the IQ gap as long as there is any possibility of it bei…

I'd suggest reading this article: http://www.slate.com/id/2178122/entry/2178123/ "white kids from households with annual incomes of $20,000 to $30,000 easily outscore black kids fr…

The existence of a racial gap in IQ is simply not in dispute. It shows up in SAT scores, it shows up in military IQ tests during times with a draft, and it shows up in numerous psy…

So cornerbacks have lower IQs because they are malnourished? That explains the IQ difference in the chart? Right ...

Here's an explanation for why foot speed and intelligence are inversely correlated: "Upper body strength is relatively equally distributed between the races, but footspeed most def…