Slate.com on race and IQ

[Phil153]

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If the question of African IQ is a matter of empirical science, exactly what piece of evidence are we waiting for? What would finally convince the racialists that they are wrong?

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Good question. You'd need a very powerful theory to explain the direct and indirect evidence that's been outlined in other threads.

Evidence that would be interesting:

- Black adoptees into the US consistently scoring at white levels by the second generation
- The wealthiest black kids with college educated black parents outdoing the poorest Asian kids with uneducated parents (hint: they don't, which is shocking and instantly debunks a lot of proposed mechanisms for the gap).
- Any black country doing as well as white
- Any poor East Asian country scoring on par with black.
- Poor, malnourished rural Asian groups scoring on par with poor, malnourished blacks in their home countries (hint: they don't. The poorest East Asians even outdo whites)

I mean come on, there's a crapload of things which could throw a spanner in the works of the gene theory and add a heap of credibility to the pure environment theory. The thing is, none of these things exist. This is huge.