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Re:What I.Q. doesn't tell you about race by mynameishere on Monday December 10, 2007 @11:42PM (#88098)
I'm aware of problems there. (As the wikipedia article discusses.) It's still the best overview, though. I am tempted to say that a country that can't administer a credible IQ test probably doesn't need to.

Actually, the African countries aren't of serious concern. [1] Rather, the disparities between developing countries' current wealth and predicted wealth based upon current IQ have their uses:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=FEMKX&t=my&l=off&...

[1] The "are black people less intelligent?" question is actually pretty trivial, and has very few practical applications.

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Re:What I.Q. doesn't tell you about race by DaniFong on Monday December 10, 2007 @11:49PM (#88103)
Trivial? You have to define black, you have to define intelligent, and if the answer happens to be an unorderable set, you have to define _less_.

I'm unconvinced that they're measuring generated wealth by IQ, either. Most of the administered tests weren't IQ tests, they were educational tests. They measured the standard deviation of the _nation's_ mean, and then mapped that to an IQ. The correlation thus isn't a direct one between IQ and generated wealth, but rather between educational performance and wealth. More obvious, this one is.

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