Are there any IQ tests that do not require some sort of basic cultural awareness on the test-taker's part?No, but some tests have less cultural bias than others. The racial differences increase the more one decreases cultural bias, according to Murray.
Are there any IQ tests that do not require some sort of basic cultural awareness on the test-taker's part?Look, from this post and others it is clear that you will not see the obvious. Stephen Jay Gould (RIP) spent a good deal of time trying to prove (mostly to himself, I think) that genes are insignificant contributors to the
differences in human intelligence. Here are some facts:
--the gap between blacks and whites
in aggregate is consistent through different ages (from toddlers through adulthood) and through different testing methodologies
--if it were significantly culturally based, then Native Americans and Hispanics should do worse than blacks. They don't. Further, Asians who arrive off the boat who can hardly speak English often do better than whites on these tests
--blacks raised in middle middle and upper middle class households score at about the same level as their inner city counterparts
--for anyone who has even a rudimentary understanding of biological principles to believe that the crowning achievement of human evolution, ie, intelligence, is not to a great degree inherited needs to go back to school.
All this being said, we must understand that this does not make it possible to predict intellectual functioning for the individual of any race or ethnic group; these data are only for the aggregate. Oh--and the twin studies are on the money; they are not flawed just because people who disagree with their findings say they are. And finally, there is not a shred of evidence to support the point that genes do not play the major role here. Gould's ridiculous book, The Mismeasure of Man needed to go back to the 19th century and attack the strawmen of that era (eg, phrenology) in order to make his "case."