Comment on High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds
Juice@midwest.social 2 days agoIs it still as racist as it was originally?
Is capitalism still creating wealth inequality based on racial discrimination? Our prisons, which are disproportionately BIPOC would say so, as well as just about any other metric. While there is more diversity among the middle class than there once was, in the USA at least, structural racism is still quite urgent and prescient.
Also historically IQ has been as much a test of cultural whiteness as intelligence, so it isn’t just that people who are poor have less access to quality education, but racial poverty is concentrated and cultural as well as economic. So a naturally intelligent person with a non-white cultural upbringing, would also test lower on an IQ test.
Has IQ changed qualitatively over the last say 50 years? How much has the testing been adapted to suit cultural differences? I’m open to being wrong but I doubt it.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
So out of curiosity I went and took a modern test that someone on reddit said is supposed to have a very good reliability rating (not that that says much). Yup, there were still some cultural/knowledge questions (“Which of these is a church most likely to have”), not just general problem solving and such.
Most importantly though I passed the test of not paying 15$ for getting the final result and instead googled what the percentile was equivalent to as it said I scored higher than X out of 1000 people. Perhaps if I was a white American I’d have scored a tiny bit higher, but honestly I’m very happy with the score I got, IF the test is accurate at all.