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Re:What Urbit is on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @07:23PM (#11819136)
> if someone creating an IQ test is a white male, chances are white males will have an advantage on the test

But why and how would white males consistently create culturally biased tests which advantage East Asians?

> It's very hard to create a "general intelligence" test that isn't biased in some fashion [and many say it's impossible]

Tests of reaction time are probably not culturally biased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_chronometry#Mental_chro...

Re:What Urbit is on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @07:03PM (#11818988)
Or as one notorious racist once put it: '"As for "race," you can learn way more about someone from a minute of conversation than from a full genome sequence -- even if we knew how to decode the information in the sequence, which we don't.'