Argument 1:
Every experiment has it's own assumption, every test has it's weakness.

Say this is for example an iq test on English literature. Having people from all over the world taking this exam, and the Englishman having a better understanding and the language being their mother tongue and living in the cultural context. I would say the Englishman would score well.

Same goes to this comparison of IQ (btw wiki is not a good source). One group may answer according to their cultural perspective/ logic and the others may have applied theirs. If the East Asian, westerners and etc was to take an iq test by the bushmen. I would bet the bushmen would give them a low score as they don't see things in their logic.

Conclusion 1:Hence i would say that everyman is smart in their own arena.

But wait i have another thought, This is what the researchers call Spurious effect

Argument 2:
What i am arguing is Race and IQ is a spurious effect. The other factor to connect the dote is attitude

Example: Social scientist has found out that hot weather increases car theft activities. This is true in terms of statistics the scientists collected but how does it makes sense. Going on with this study they found out that. Hot weather leads to car owners leaving their car window open and this leads to car theft.

Conclusion:
I believe the connection between Race and IQ is attitude.
Assumption:
From the above hypothesis, there are assumptions that is some race are lazier/less prone to improving their knowledge/ignorant ...etc, whilst others are hardworking/more open to challenges and improvement and etc.



Overall what i am trying to say is that every IQ test is biased and not culturally sensitive but i do agree that there is relations between Race and IQ and that is attitude.

This post has been edited by cIvIc_noob: Nov 27 2009, 11:44 PM