"What IQ Doesn't Tell You About Race"

[Sam_Lee]

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He looked first at Lynn’s data, and realized that the comparison was skewed. Lynn was comparing American I.Q. estimates based on a representative sample of schoolchildren with Japanese estimates based on an upper-income, heavily urban sample. Recalculated, the Japanese average came in not at 106.6 but at 99.2.

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<p>So the guy found that it was an unfair comparison. I agree.</p>

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When the Chinese-American scores were reassessed using up-to-date intelligence metrics, Flynn found, they came in at 97 verbal and 100 nonverbal. Chinese-Americans had slightly lower I.Q.s than white Americans.

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<p>But he was okay with this one when one can argue the slightly lower verbal IQ of Chinese-American children may be due to the fact many of their parents probably don’t even speak much English. I’d think the fluency of your parents has more impact than income level!! Interesting!</p>