> Wodtke, a sociology doctoral candidate, analyzed data on racial attitudes from more than 20,000 white Americans participating in the nationally representative General Social Survey. The average study participant was calculated to be a 47-year-old white person who completed 12.9 years of education, answering six of 10 cognitive ability test questions correctly.
Something is wrong with their data set samples. “Smarter white people” would not participate in a survey setup to falsely “prove” a thereom consisting of questions that are intentionally skewed and geared to make one come to a conlusion that the author wants to portray. Most polls today are setup to manipulate the public’s opinions using bandwagon mentality. Obama is an expert at it.
But it's interesting that Wodtke did not hesitate to score the white population for "cognitive ability" based on a ten question pop quiz. (Wouldn't want to resort to a real IQ test, I'm sure ... IQ testing being racist, etc.)
So, I wonder if he bothered to test for cognitive ability in black, Hispanic, and Asian populations, and to consider the possibility that much of the stratification in economic outcomes is linked to mental ability, education, and the resulting different professional pathways.
It would also be interesting to learn what policy preferences Wodtke deems as operationally racist. Much of modern liberalism implicitly assumes inherent black and Hispanic inferiority, but somehow I don't imagine that is what Wodtke has in his crosshairs.
The underlying study would be interesting. Wodtke is dancing around the race and IQ issue from an apparently leftist perspective. One wonders if he has the intellectual clarity to recognize the issues involved.
not peer-reviewed, I gather.