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For example, the average scores of black people on some IQ tests in 1995 were the same as the scores of white people in 1945. [70] As one pair of academics phrased it, "the typical African American today probably has a slightly higher IQ than the grandparents of today's average white American." [71]
Average IQ in East Asian nations had been reported as equal to or substantially above the American average. Asians did particularly well on spatial tests. Their knowledge of mathematics were above that predicted from IQ scores which may reflect cultural differences or higher spatial ability.
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by the psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and the political scientist Charles Murray in which the authors argue that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and that it is a better predictor of many personal outcomes, including financial income, job performance ...
Americans’ IQ scores are trending in a downward direction. In fact, they’ve been falling for over a decade. According to a press release, in studying intelligence testing data from 2006 to ...
For comparison, the average IQ is around 100. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking ranked close to 160. ... the same way it makes us feel better about the state of the world to laugh about Trump ...
An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence. [1] Originally, IQ was a score obtained by dividing a person's mental age score, obtained by administering an intelligence test, by the person's chronological age, both expressed in terms of years and months.
Asian Americans of Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean descent score the highest on average, with the difference primarily on mathematics subtests, in all scholastic standardized tests such as the SAT, GRE, MCAT, USMLE exams and IQ tests followed by White Americans who score in the intermediate range.
Results showed that the average firstborn had an IQ of 103, compared to 100 for second children and 99 for third children. ... among Brits as well as Americans, adults who had scored higher on IQ ...