This is why I have a problem with a statement like "race and IQ is not a legitimate matter for scientific inquiry." But both are social-political constructs. T

This is why I have a problem with a statement like "race and IQ is not a legitimate matter for scientific inquiry." But both are social-political constructs. They are labels. What do you gain by correlating some feature of human behavior under examination with them? (I provide one answer in another comment: the effective distribution of useful information through existing social channels.) Yes, racial labels refer to something real. But it's like correlating geological data with the state of California. California refers to something real. But as a scientist why would I want to correlate seismic activity with the state borders of California as opposed to, say, some fault-line that runs out into the Pacific or up into Oregon?