[exDemMom]

Because we are not all created equal. Blacks are pretty much a standard deviation below whites.

A lot of that difference is a result of a culture that punishes anyone who tries to get ahead and rewards a victim mentality.

I wonder, if only middle class blacks were considered, what the IQ distribution would be? I bet it would be indistinguishable from whites.

Culture and early childhood development cannot be excluded as contributors to IQ.

[yarddog]

According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, IQ is almost totally a product of inheritance.

I guess someone could be so abused that they were physically damaged to the point that all their development would suffer but given anything like normal upbringing, it is nature not nurture.

On the other hand you could take a person who was born with a very low IQ and no matter how many resources were spent on them they would always have a low IQ.

[wardaddy]

Black IQ low worldwide

In some African nations startlingly so

Nations with no democrats or white bogeymen to blame

[ogen hal]

No. If you “only considered” middle class “whites”, the difference would remain.

[TheThirdRuffian]

"A lot of that difference is a result of a culture that punishes anyone who tries to get ahead and rewards a victim mentality"

Some, but IQ is about 80% genetic.

The countries from where black slaves originated have 67-74 average IQs.




Now, all statistics are useless when it comes to a given individual. Obama is not stupid. Probably clearly above average, a solid 120. But he was not Ivy League material and certainly not Presidential material. Unfortunately, he's been given a trophy at every level and never done anything, so he mistakenly thinks he's smart.