I would be interested to see the results for a comparison of black and white individuals with comparable upbringings.
I have a very, very hard time believing this.
Yes, if you compare the cognitive ability of someone in a 3rd world country to that of someone in a first world country, or someone who grew up in poverty to someone who grew up comfortably, I would be unsurprised to see a difference.
I would be intrigued to be linked to any peer-reviewed study that is not colored by those factors.
Definitely, but the author is still right to point out that black people are overrepresented in the sample. You could argue that there is still a gap between black and white Americans in terms of education, wealth, etc., and IQ is partially influenced by environmental factors such as maternal/paternal education level (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0899900707...).
> Currently, there is no non-circumstantial evidence that these differences in test scores have a genetic component,
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> Soon, other studies appeared, contesting these conclusions and arguing instead that the Army tests had not adequately controlled for the environmental factors such as socio-economic and educational inequality between African-Americans and Whites.
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> The majority of anthropologists today consider race to be a sociopolitical phenomenon rather than a biological one,[34] a view supported by considerable genetics research.
I didn't mean to imply that I knew the answer to your question. I meant that the IQ disparity is a statistical fact, but the cause is a hotly debated area of research without clear answers, and the Wikipedia page is a good primer on the various sides of the debate. The point is that in a study like this you may have to adjust for oversampling by race.
I have a very, very hard time believing this.
Yes, if you compare the cognitive ability of someone in a 3rd world country to that of someone in a first world country, or someone who grew up in poverty to someone who grew up comfortably, I would be unsurprised to see a difference.
I would be intrigued to be linked to any peer-reviewed study that is not colored by those factors.