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04/03/2008: "No racial bias in IQ testing"

The nearly universal assumption that intelligence is not different are based on the central claim that all IQ tests are invalid. There are no IQ tests that show the races to be the same, though there have been few that score uneducated criminals higher than college educated police officers in "street" IQ. This is the classic "all of the evidence to the contrary is wrong, even if there is no evidence to support my contention, therefore you cannot disprove the zero hypothesis of equality". However, high Asian scores are inconsistent with racist bias, since that would imply the Asian advantage is based on unfair discrimination against whites.

When they come ahead, Asians come up 5 to 10 points higher than average, or about 1/3 to 1/2 as far ahead of whites as whites are ahead of blacks. Asians as a group aren't as high as Jews, but Chinese and Indians broken out separately do nearly as well on SAT tests. Asians fall behind in culturally based measures such as english skills or "document literacy", but are uniformly better in math tests except when matching unusually poor Asians with exceptionally affluent whites, such as in Seattle.

[ IQ is distributed unequally within ethnic groups as well. For example, there are many whites below 100. Historically, the societies that have risen to do great things in art, architecture, literature, science, philosophy and religion have been the ones who were least hospitable to the lower clines of intelligence. ]

http://www.arthurhu.com/INDEX/aintell.htm#spectrum