> I suspect that the hard data you speak of won't come in during our lifetime
You "suspect" that, huh?
As Stephen Hawking once said, "Wrong AGAIN, Albert!"
Here's what real, objective scientists have to say:
June 2005 issue of Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 11, No. 2.
> Hey SOCK PUPPET show me ALL the data:
Why are you calling me a sock puppet? Who am I a sock puppet for? I'm a real person, my real first name is Faye,and for three years I've live naked in a cave in the woods.
> Are men more intelligent as measured by IQ than women by 5-6 IQ points?
I believe they are, yes. And I imagine that would explain why all the great inventions through human history were made by men. Doesn't that make sense to you?
Or were you expecting to trigger an emotion-based denial of obvious truth just because I happen to be female and my people are, in general, stupider than men?
You just insulted me in the worst way: you insulted my INTEGRITY.
Oh, and if it makes you feel better, Asians are IN GENERAL, several points smarter than us whites. Which, if you look around, makes sense
TOO.
> Could you please name and link (to the original source) the top 10 studies that show White-Black IQ differences on the order of a standard deviation or more.
Sure! But you won't read them. You won't even read the following summaries. People like you believe just exactly whatever the hell they WANT to believe, then ATTACK people who point out that the emperor has no clothes.
Black and White 2- to 6-year-old children in the U.S. standardization sample
of the Differential Aptitude Scale have a 1 standard deviation mean difference. On the Differential Aptitude Battery, by age 6, however, the average IQ of East Asian children is 107, compared with 103 for White children and 89 for Black children (Lynn, 1996).
[NOTE: list of cited works at end]
The size of the average Black–White difference does not change significantly over
the developmental period from 3 years of age and beyond (Jensen, 1974,
1998b).
Serious questions have been raised about the validity of using tests for racial
comparisons. However, because the tests show similar patterns of internal item
consistency and predictive validity for all groups, and because the same differ-
ences are found on culture-free tests, most psychometricians have
concluded that the tests are valid measures of racial differences (Wigdor & Garner, 1982).
This conclusion was endorsed by the American Psychological Association's Task Force’s statement: “Considered as predictors of future performance, the tests do not seem to be biased against African Americans” (Neisser et al., 1996, p. 93).
Most disputed is the validity of the low mean IQ scores reported for sub-
Saharan Africans. Lynn’s (1991) review of 11 studies found a mean IQ of 70.
A subsequent review of over two dozen studies by Vanhanen (2002) found
an average IQ of 70 for West, Central, East, and Southern Africa.
For example:
-- In Kenya, Sternberg et al. (2001) administered the same rest to 85 children ages 12 to 15 years old who scored about the 2nd percentile for 13-year-olds, an IQ equivalent of 70.
-- In South Africa, Skuy, Schutte, Fridjhon, and O’Carroll (2001) found mean scores 1 to 2 standard deviations below U.S. norms on a wide variety of individually administered tests given to 154 African high school students under optimized conditions.
I originally had nine of those, but for brevity, I deleted all but the first two.
OKAY?
Oh, wait! You say you say that Africans are only profoundly retarded because the environment hasn't been controlled for! HEY:
DO YOU THINK THE RESEARCHERS AT THESE UNIVERSITIES ARE STUPID? Other culturally-neutral studies in dozens of countries controlled for (up to) 114 variables show the EXACT same results-- results which were repeatedly duplicated at other institutions.
I'm not going to copy and paste them all since as a Padua scientist, you haven't read this far. But it's all in THIS.
So other than a conspiracy by hundreds of politically-liberal sociologists, what could explain this 20-point IQ gap? You can't think of AAANY reason why blacks would be, in general, stupider than whites! Well, how about:
Race–IQ Differences correlate well with brain size differences (Section 6 of the above link).
HAHA! This is where you throw Galileo's telescope to the ground in anger!
But the fact still remains: many MRI studies at different institutions show that brain size is related to IQ differences within race. Moreover, the three-way pattern of group differences in average brain size is detectable at birth.
By adulthood, East Asians average 1 cubic inch more cranial capacity than Whites, who average 5 cubic inches more cranial capacity than Blacks.
So you say that the MRI machines all had some internal bias, huh! Well:
These findings on group differences in average brain size have been replicated using:
-- MRI
-- Endocranial volume from empty skulls
-- Wet brain weight at autopsy, and
-- External head size measures
They were acknowledged by Ulric Neisser, Chair of the APA’s Task Force on intelligence, who noted that, with respect to “racial differences in the mean measured sizes of skulls and brains (with East Asians having the largest, followed by Whites and then Blacks). There is indeed an overall trend” (Neisser, 1997, p. 80).
The culture-only position has yet to explain both the higher IQ and the larger brain size of East Asians.
And "WHY did this difference evolve", you ask (or would, if you had the integrity to change your opinion when confronted with new facts)?
Here's why:
the farther north the ancestral human populations migrated out of Africa, about 100,000 years ago, the more they encountered the cognitively demanding problems of gathering and storing food, gaining shelter, making clothes, and raising children successfully during prolonged winters. Ecological pressures selected for larger brains, slower rates of maturation, lower levels of sex hormone, and all the other life-history characteristics
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Slate forum software said that this post was too long, but you'll find the entire list in the link I gave.
