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"because people end up associating wealth and success with IQ, and since a disproportionate amount of wealth in America is controlled by whites people, and sinc
by jacobreise 7y ago
"because people end up associating wealth and success with IQ, and since a disproportionate amount of wealth in America is controlled by whites people, and since minorities are more likely to live in poverty, this causes some people to suggest that those specific minorities have lower IQs or something"
This is really not how IQ testing is done. Rather than guessing about correlations in the environment to IQ and working backwards to come up with an estimate for IQ, generally IQ tests are administered.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoBut notoriously with cultural bias. Questions about 'which of these tea-service items goes with the other?' and so on.
- jacobreise 7y agoIt isn't true that IQ tests contain questions about tea-service items or yachting or other culturally biased questions. Raven's Progressive Matrices [1] is an example of a test that doesn't depend upon knowledge of tea service items. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoPresuming of course that test-taking, geometric drawings, mathematical concepts are not cultural either...