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by joeykrug 3675 days ago
Yep it is statistically correct.

For anyone interested in the potential reasons: one of the most posited ones is that the creators of the tests are inherently biased. i.e. if someone creating an IQ test is a white male, chances are white males will have an advantage on the test.

This has some degree of experimental evidence behind it, I remember in one of my psych classes we learned about a study where test creators tried to create tests [and succeeded] where certain races or locales would score higher [primarily by having people in those places or people of that race create the tests]. It's very hard to create a "general intelligence" test that isn't biased in some fashion [and many say it's impossible]

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> if someone creating an IQ test is a white male, chances are white males will have an advantage on the test

But why and how would white males consistently create culturally biased tests which advantage East Asians?

> It's very hard to create a "general intelligence" test that isn't biased in some fashion [and many say it's impossible]

Tests of reaction time are probably not culturally biased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_chronometry#Mental_chro...