"Sparks inevitably flew. Phil Rushton, with an anti-apartheid activist as his co-author, shocked the g-doubters with results from IQ testing in one of Africa’s two best universities, Witwatersrand. He has found that the black African students had a mean IQ of only 84. Assuming top-flight university students have IQs at least one standard deviation above the mean, this yields an estimate of an average IQ of only 70 for Africans as a group."
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Anonymous2007-09-15 5:38 ID:5GaHvIeR
RedCrank, if the tests are made to be biased by the Whites who write them, why do Asians and Jews score higher than Whites? The general consensus amongst sociologists is that 50-80% of the IQ differences across groups is accountable for by hereditary factors--not environment or other biases. Also, with regards to environmental factors, the rationale is that poor environment is generally a result of low IQ, not the cause.
It seems to me perfectly rational that different races would vary in cognitive ability, just as they do in appearance and countless other features. The people who make far more absurd claims are the ones who claim blacks are equal in all senses of the word, including mental ability. Where the hell is the proof of this baseless assumption?