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Critical race theory explains IQ differences between socioeconomic groups (including races) extremely well.

• klyrs 3y ago
  Critical Race Theory is politically incorrect, under any definition of political correctness I know
• cjbgkagh 3y ago
  Does it? Most of what I’ve seen amounts to assume races are have equal inherent IQ distributions, given test results are unequal the assumption is then tests must be inherently biased (examples of recent immigrant non-English speaking Jews improving their IQ scores as they learned English) or differences are caused by socio economic factors. That logic would fall apart if the original assumption wasn’t made, but anything starting with a prior that races can have different IQ distributions is thrown out as racist. The progressive book ‘The Genetic Lottery’ kind-of makes the case for polygenic factors considered evenly distributed amongst the races as a basis for that assumption but in my view their logic has a number of holes in it. If there is a better treatment of the topic I’m genuinely interested in reading it.
• omginternets 3y ago
  Nit: CRT certainly offers an explanation, but I don't think it's a particularly good one. Because it always appeals to "systemic injustice", it can't account for things like 1. the persistence of between group IQ differences amongst children people who have relocated to other countries/culture; 2. the disproportionate success of certain historically-marginalized groups; 3. regression to the mean; and, 4. other factors that marginally influence IQ scores (e.g. single-parent household vs dual-parent household) without engaging in circular reasoning. At best, CRT's explanation is incomplete.