http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2176
By James Fulford
As Steve Sailer noted in our blog [http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/12/01/vdarecoms-unique-selling-proposition-restored/ for the basic facts of the IQ debate.
Saletan had previously done a three-part series that began:
“Last month, http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2183, the legendary biologist, was condemned and forced into retirement after claiming that African intelligence wasn’t ‘the same as ours.’ ‘Racist, vicious and unsupported by science’, said the Federation of American Scientists. ‘Utterly unsupported by scientific evidence’, declared the U.S. government’s supervisor of genetic research.
“The New York Times told readers that when http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2118 implied ‘that black Africans are less intelligent than whites, he hadn’t a scientific leg to stand on.’
“I wish these assurances were true. They aren’t. Tests do show an IQ deficit, not just for Africans relative to Europeans, but for Europeans relative to Asians.”For the record, we are not dealing here with a “pseudoscientific” belief that blacks have a genetically lower IQ. We are dealing with a fact: blacks do have lower average IQ test scores. It’s at least arguable that this fact is connected with another fact—what the United States Congress calls the “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2375,” with reference to K-12 education and the No Child Left Behind Act, and which Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom call the “Racial Gap In Learning” .
That part we know for sure—lower average test scores for African-Americans. That’s why there has to be affirmative action, and why Jimmy Carter abolished the Civil Service exam in 1981, since they couldn’t make African-Americans pass it at the same rates as whites.
In opposition, we also have a theory, an unproven and oft-refuted theory, that this disparity is not genetic, but caused by “white racism,” or “stereotype threat,” or something of that nature, even when there is no detectable evidence for it.
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