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The average IQ of African-Americans is a standard deviation below that of whites, which in turn is a bit below that of Asians and Ashkenazi Jews [1]. Under the
by ebfe 11y ago
The average IQ of African-Americans is a standard deviation below that of whites, which in turn is a bit below that of Asians and Ashkenazi Jews [1].
Under the assumption that the tech industry has a higher average IQ than the population as a whole, then in a world free of any sort of discrimination, one would expect to see blacks underrepresented and Asians overrepresented.
This isn't a fun fact to discuss; I don't intend any sort of disrespect towards people like the author who are most likely smarter than me. But it's one that needs to be accounted for in discussions about race.
1. http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jensen30years.pdf http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jensen3...
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoYeah that's widely disputed. Maybe because its just the PC line; maybe its actually nonsense. That article spends an uncomfortable amount of time tooting its own horn about being the underdog and what national newspapers its been featured in. The obvious criticism is, the classes measured in so-called 'Jensenism' are defined by cultures as well as race. What attempt has been made to disambiguate that?
- Geekette 11y agoI would certainly discount info from a researcher who amongst other things: consistently ignored evidence disproving his assertions over time, was funded and endorsed by racist/white supremacist organization specifically to produce literature suggesting racial hierarchy in intelligence[1][2]. More importantly, the concept of IQ is a myth: there is no single measure of intelligence, different neural networks coordinate verbal vs reasoning vs short-term memory abilities, etc[3][4]. That one test (based on solving certain classes of problems at most) is still being extrapolated to assessment of overall intelligence and used to somehow differentiate people is ludicrous. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jensen#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Jensen#Criticism [2] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.174.265&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.174... [3]http://www.thestar.com/life/2012/12/19/iq_a_myth_study_says.html http://www.thestar.com/life/2012/12/19/iq_a_myth_study_says.... [4] http://www.owenlab.uwo.ca/pdf/2012%20-%20Hampshire%20-%20Neuron.pdf http://www.owenlab.uwo.ca/pdf/2012%20-%20Hampshire%20-%20Neu...