Because, to begin with, the idea that we can measure intelligence is still under debate. There are people on HN who will tell you it's not, which is only true i

Because, to begin with, the idea that we can measure intelligence is still under debate. There are people on HN who will tell you it's not, which is only true if they choose to ignore everyone who disagrees with them. And because we know how the media likes to spin/exaggerate medial studies, someone one will eventually link it to race. And it's happened before[1]... . And, similar to how BMI wrongly turned into an individual indicator of obesity, some very mild affinity over a large sample size for a dubious metric will turn into the absolute brain-points and politics will take over and it'll just be a big mess. In short, society is not mature enough to handle this area of research right now. The consequences of getting it wrong, or even right, is severe. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism