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Topic: The average IQ of races differ


  
 Race and intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
IQ gap in the US In almost every testing situation where tests were administered and evaluated correctly, a difference of approximately one standard deviation was observed in the US between the mean IQ score of Blacks and Whites.
IQ and the Wealth of Nations, a book by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, is the most recent prominent example of an economic analysis of the IQ and Race issue.
IQ tests done in developing countries are likely affected by impoverished environmental conditions that are common in the developing world, such as nutritional deficiencies (e.g., iodine deficiency is known to affect intelligence) and the impact of diseases (e.g., HIV, anemia or chronic parasites that may affect IQ test scores).
race-and-intelligence.iqnaut.net   (7797 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Race Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Given the way that different human "races" fade gradually from one to another in many parts of the world, the overwhelming majority of the current generation of cultural anthropologists draw the conclusion that human "racial" variation is in fact clinal, and that the human species is monotypic.
The historical definition of race, before the development of evolutionary biology, was that of common lineage, a vague concept interchangeable with species, breed, cultural origin, or national character ("The whole race of mankind." – Shakespeare; "From whence the race of Alban fathers come" – Dryden).
Some people define their ideas of race in terms of the genetic similarities of groups of individuals that have formed when the human race migrated across the globe and subsequently adapted to new environments or was otherwise changed genetically.
www.ipedia.com /race.html   (5659 words)

  
 Intelligence quotient - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The average IQ scores for many populations were rising during the 20th century: a phenomenon called the Flynn effect.
The heritability of IQ measures the extent to which the IQ of children appears to be influenced by the IQ of parents.
While IQ is sometimes treated as an end unto itself, scholarly work on IQ focuses to a large extent on IQ's validity, that is, the degree to which IQ predicts outcomes such as job performance, social pathologies, or academic achievement.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IQ   (6445 words)

  
 Correcting the SAT's Ethnic and Social-Class Bias: A Method for Reestimating SAT Scores   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The average top-scoring African American student's R-SAT score is 543, while the top-scoring White student in the same row averages an R-SAT score of 514, which is still impressive but not as high as the African American student's score.
The question is whether family income differences among Whites (and associated differences in education level) lead to a sufficiently different set of cultural values and expectations so that one might expect to find a significant SAT test-bias effect emerging from analyses that contrast subgroups of Whites with different income and/or education levels.
Although some state and college officials say that race is not the basis for questioning the regular SAT as a requirement, other observers suggest that the unintended existence of ethnic bias in the SAT underlies their efforts to minimize the importance of the test in college admissions.
www.gse.harvard.edu /hepg/freedle.html   (15867 words)

  
 Two Views of The Bell Curve
Consequently, when examining the relationship between IQ and a dependent variable, to "hold constant" the SES of biological parents (on the grounds that SES is a competing "environmental explanation") results in an underestimate of the true influence of IQ.
The difference in measured IQ between African Americans and Whites has remained at about 15 IQ points for decades, although there is some indication of very modest convergence due to fewer low scores in the African American population.
As any graduate student knows, the source of individual differences in a trait cannot be taken as evidence for the source of group differences in the same trait.
felix.unife.it /Root/d-Mensa-files/d-Intelligence/t-Bell-curve-reviews   (6251 words)

  
 Darwinism,Evolution,Racism
Differences in intelligence were viewed as the key factors in human evolution because mind was a major factor of survival, and thus of selection.
White school children in eastern Tennessee were able to improve their average I.Q. score by almost this much between 1930 and 1940, apparently as a result of the introduction of schools in their area, increased outside stimulation from innovations such as radios, and more parental support in education.
At one time more differences existed between, for example, a man who lived in a cave and one who lived in a castle; and historical study has found that the man in the cave was in some ways better off, at least regarding certain health factors.
www.biblebelievers.net /CreationScience/kjcevol1.htm   (9456 words)

  
 Equality: Man's Most Dangerous Myth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Examples of cultural traits which differ from race to race are mannerisms of speech ("Amos 'n' Andy" dialect or "Black English"), styles of dress, and personal grooming.
The culture of a race, free of alien influences, is telling evidence of that race's essential nature.
Intelligence: The IQ of the average American Negro is 15 per cent lower than that of the average American White.
www.nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=3773   (1678 words)

  
 Fudge Factor: December 2005
In negligible variance tasks like races, it is likely that characters will run about their Speed scale and trait level all the time, and rolling 4dF and applying it to Speed seems unrealistic.
At the end of each trait value append whole number and a single digit decimal that represents the number of tenths of a point that the character is along his way between his current trait level and the next trait level.
For example, the difference between Great- and Good using such a system would only be a RDF of +0 since they are not at least three full Edge row shifts apart.
www.fudgefactor.org /archive/2005_12_01_archive.html   (14210 words)

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