Isn’t the average Black IQ something like 70?
The area of Africa from which most slaves were taken, today has an average IQ of 80. And don’t forget, “social promotion” helped get the high school graduation rate up to the 60% mentioned in the article.
Isn’t the average Black IQ something like 70?”
I think it is aboubt ten point lower than the average white IQ, which is about ten points lower than the average Asian IQ. But few blacks are actually all black so there is a lot of variation on those ten points.
Basically it is having a family that stays together and high expectations. The Asians have higher expectations and have less single parent homes than do whites and far less than do blacks.
Basically it gets to a combination of nature, IQ, and nurture, family.
70 is the cutoff for retardation, two standard deviations from the mean, not the average for any group. IQ is not the only test of intelligence and is not correlated with success, except in a very general sense. Many extremely intelligent people fail, and many who are in the lower cohort are more successful than IQ would predict. However, success with a 70 IQ would mean being able to live with assistance and maintain a minimum wage job.