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Race and IQ have sadly been linked since a bogus research report/book came out in the 1960's called "The Bell Curve" by Murray and Herrnstein. There is a book called "Race and IQ" by Ashley Montagu that you can find on google books that talks about the problems with the research. It might be worth finding the original book but there have been many authors who have written about it since. Research back then wasn't as rigorous as now, and access to the bibliographic citations difficult to track, most people took the report at face value that - yes race and IQ were related. More recent research, of course, negates this link. But that's where it probably all started.
The problem may also be related to your previous question about SES and IQ. If you look at the data from the National Association of Educational Progress (NAEP - http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/) and other groups that track testing data over time (NAEP started to track longitudinally in the 1990's), you can see that Whites traditionally outperform other ethnic groups such as Black and Hispanic. More recently they Asian American were added but they perform similarly to Whites. (The good news - according to some sources that follow the tracking is that the gap is getting smaller. My own recent research into the NAEP data showed Hispanics to be making better progress at a faster rate - I don't have a citation for that because it was really just some side data that we were looking at while trying to track other testing information.) ASCD tracks alot of educational news and is where you might be able to find the data on the reduction of the achievement gap. http://www.ascd.org/)
While school performance and IQ aren't the same - and there is the cultural bias associated with both standardized testing in schools and IQ tests - there are a higher percentage of Black and Hispanic students in schools with high free/reduced school lunches (a way of tracking income basically) while a high percentage of White students are in schools with low percentage of free/reduced lunch. Thus, some people may believe that race and IQ can still be linked given the school achievement information.
The problem may also be related to your previous question about SES and IQ. If you look at the data from the National Association of Educational Progress (NAEP - http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/) and other groups that track testing data over time (NAEP started to track longitudinally in the 1990's), you can see that Whites traditionally outperform other ethnic groups such as Black and Hispanic. More recently they Asian American were added but they perform similarly to Whites. (The good news - according to some sources that follow the tracking is that the gap is getting smaller. My own recent research into the NAEP data showed Hispanics to be making better progress at a faster rate - I don't have a citation for that because it was really just some side data that we were looking at while trying to track other testing information.) ASCD tracks alot of educational news and is where you might be able to find the data on the reduction of the achievement gap. http://www.ascd.org/)
While school performance and IQ aren't the same - and there is the cultural bias associated with both standardized testing in schools and IQ tests - there are a higher percentage of Black and Hispanic students in schools with high free/reduced school lunches (a way of tracking income basically) while a high percentage of White students are in schools with low percentage of free/reduced lunch. Thus, some people may believe that race and IQ can still be linked given the school achievement information.
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http://www.ascd.org/
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=NWFWm3GW90kC&oi=fnd&...
http://www.ascd.org/
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=NWFWm3GW90kC&oi=fnd&...
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voted helpful: john2
No, it has been proven that race and intelligence have no relation. The main issue is the fact that many IQ tests in the past were culturally biased and could not be properly used across racial lines. For example, try asking a simple math problem of adding apples and oranges together to an Inuit who has never even seen either fruit.
For an interesting read on the subject of race, intelligence and history, read "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.
For an interesting read on the subject of race, intelligence and history, read "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.
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