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I'm aware of problems there. (As the wikipedia article discusses.) It's still the best overview, though. I am tempted to say that a country that can't administe

I'm aware of problems there. (As the wikipedia article discusses.) It's still the best overview, though. I am tempted to say that a country that can't administer a credible IQ test probably doesn't need to. Actually, the African countries aren't of serious concern. [1] Rather, the disparities between developing countries' current wealth and predicted wealth based upon current IQ have their uses: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=FEMKX&t=my&l=off&z=l&q=l&c= http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=FEMKX&t=my&l=off&#38... [1] The "are black people less intelligent?" question is actually pretty trivial, and has very few practical applications.

DaniFong 19y ago
Trivial? You have to define black, you have to define intelligent, and if the answer happens to be an unorderable set, you have to define _less_. I'm unconvinced that they're measuring generated wealth by IQ, either. Most of the administered tests weren't IQ tests, they were educational tests. They measured the standard deviation of the _nation's_ mean, and then mapped that to an IQ. The correlation thus isn't a direct one between IQ and generated wealth, but rather between educational performance and wealth. More obvious, this one is.