My article on race differences in iq

[bpesta22]

I promised I would post this once it got published. Not sure who might be interested, but it's only 8 pages or so.

I own the copyright to this version. Yer free to do what you want with it, as long as you don't sucker someone else into buying it, or use it in anyway for profit (not sure how that's possible).

The final, final version will be slightly different from this one. It will have different page numbers and will correct the following mistakes (every place where PI appears will be replaced by IT; and Table 5, section 3, should read "on GPA" not "on IQ" as it does now; this could be confusing if you happen to read the article, and don't note the change).

Feedback appreciated!

http://ourworld.cs.com/Bpesta22/INTELL_412.pdf

 

[GoodGuysEatPie]

I have a few questions:

1. How did you control for cultural/experience-bias in the Intelligence tests? Historically, intelligence tests have been unfairly biased against non-whites, because it asked questions that were well outside the context of their experience.
2. Are you planning to follow up with better sampling? Your participants were 70% white and 30% black. I realize that this is somewhat a by-product of your college's demographic spread, but these kind of studies make me queasy with such low number statistics.
3. What prompted profs in accounting and management to do this study? One generally sees these studies done by researchers in cognitive science.

~goodguyseatpie~

 

[bpesta22]

I have a few questions:

1. How did you control for cultural/experience-bias in the Intelligence tests? Historically, intelligence tests have been unfairly biased against non-whites, because it asked questions that were well outside the context of their experience.
2. Are you planning to follow up with better sampling? Your participants were 70% white and 30% black. I realize that this is somewhat a by-product of your college's demographic spread, but these kind of studies make me queasy with such low number statistics.
3. What prompted profs in accounting and management to do this study? One generally sees these studies done by researchers in cognitive science.

~goodguyseatpie~

Hello.

We've had a few threads on it if you're interested, but:

1) I contend, and I think the science agrees, that IQ tests are not culturally biased. They predict just as well for minorities as for whites.

2) No plans to follow up, at least anytime soon. I was collecting the data for another project; had lots of it, and decided to look at the group differences.

3) I am a cognitive psychologist hiding in the business college.