Closing the Black/White IQ Gap?

James Flynn and Charles Murray search for a solution.

Ronald Bailey | December 1, 2006

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span class="c1">Flynn believes that the data show that the black/white gap is closing—that the average IQ scores of black Americans are rising faster than those of whites. And he began his talk at AEI by describing a study done by a German psychometrician who tested the IQs of 170 white and 69 half-black children left behind in Germany by American GIs. The average score for the white kids was 97 and 96.5 for the half-black kids. Flynn pointed out that the black German kids would probably have had a harder time in German society, yet they scored almost identically to their white counterparts. If the Eyferth study is right, the differences in IQ cannot be attributed to genetics. o:p> /o:p> /span> /p> p class="MsoNormal c2"> span class= "c1"> o:p>  /o:p> /span> /p> p class="MsoNormal c2"> span class="c1">Nevertheless, Flynn noted, in the US the tendency is for the black/white IQ score gap to widen with age. According to Flynn, the average IQ for black four-year olds is 95.4, which drops to 89.4 at age 14 and widens further to 83.4 by age 24. Flynn dismissed the argument that pregnant black women were on average less health conscious than white women. Flynn said that when he looked at the data he could not find evidence that black women smoke or drink more than white women, though black women do tend gain a bit less weight while pregnant which might indicate under-nutrition. Flynn further observed that blacks generally do worse on vocabulary tests and he suggested that a cultural difference might explain it. The children of professionals hear about 2500 different words in a day whereas the children of welfare mothers hear about 600 different words every day. Finally, Flynn believes that the black adolescent subculture that devalues education is largely responsible for widening the IQ gap. “It is more probable than not that the black/white IQ gap results from environmental factors,” he declared.   o:p>

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…given priority.   Today, 03:02 PM janesmith0181 Junior Member   Join Date: Oct 2009 2 posts Reputation: 10 Quote: Originally Posted by nicet4 No, it's a black and brown community problem. Here's the problem . 83.4 at age 24? This is one full standard deviation from the mean! They're lost. The answer on how to best protect yourself and the ones you love is to avoid the black community. you speak the…

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…correct that they are well documented. There are also differences between the ethnic groups within the various races. Physical appearance, maturation rates and resistance to disease to name a few. - Reel And IQ but that's racism. Quote: Flynn believes that the data show that the black/white gap is closing—that the average IQ scores of black Americans are rising faster than those of whites. And he began his talk…

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White Supremacism on the rise - Politics and Other Controversies - Page 6 - City-Data links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…correct that they are well documented. There are also differences between the ethnic groups within the various races. Physical appearance, maturation rates and resistance to disease to name a few. - Reel And IQ but that's racism. Quote: Flynn believes that the data show that the black/white gap is closing—that the average IQ scores of black Americans are rising faster than those of whites. And he began his talk…