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Re:Study finds learning music won’t make children smart by jonfw on Thursday July 30, 2020 @01:42PM (#24000947)
Most of our attempts to quantify intelligence have shown a correlation with race. That's evidence of something- either bad tests with cultural bias, or differences in intelligence between races.

I think most people recognize that the latter idea would be really bad for society, and thus requires a pretty high bar of evidence to consider, and IQ tests are far from good enough evidence.

Re:Study finds learning music won’t make children smart by tgv on Thursday July 30, 2020 @01:59PM (#24001148)
Which makes IQ a talking point for racists, and "general intelligence" an almost unfalsifiable defence against it.