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  2. Race and intelligence - Wikipedia

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    More recent research attempting to identify genetic loci associated with individual-level differences in IQ has yielded promising results, which led the editorial board of Nature to issue a statement differentiating this research from the "racist" pseudoscience which it acknowledged has dogged intelligence research since its inception. [151]

  3. History of the race and intelligence controversy - Wikipedia

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    A section in IQ and human intelligence (1998) by Nicholas Mackintosh discussed ethnic groups and Race and intelligence: separating science from myth (2002) edited by Jefferson Fish presented further commentary on The Bell Curve by anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, historians, biologists and statisticians. [154]

  4. Category:Race and intelligence controversy - Wikipedia

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    The debate concerns possible explanations of group differences encountered in the study of race and intelligence. Since the beginning of IQ testing around the time of World War I there have been observed differences between average scores of different population groups, though these differences have fluctuated and in many cases steadily ...

  5. Ashkenazi Jewish intelligence - Wikipedia

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    This paper suggested that the average IQ score of Ashkenazi Jews fall in a range of 108–115 under some studies, which would be significantly higher than that of any other ethnic group in the world. [15] [17] [18] The paper received widespread coverage in media. [19] [20] [21] The paper attracted significant criticism and controversy.

  6. Eyferth study - Wikipedia

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    There were about 98 mixed race (black-white), and about 83 white children in the sample. [5] The total sample consisted of about 5 percent of the German children known to have been fathered by black soldiers between 1945 and 1953, in addition to a matched sample of 83 German children whose fathers were white soldiers.

  7. Intelligence quotient - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Intelligence and public policy - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive test scores predict educational performance better than they predict any other outcome, and cognitive testing is pervasive in academics [citation needed].Central policy issues concern the proper role of testing in assessing educational quality and in college admission; efforts to characterize and close the educational achievement gap between racial and socioeconomic groups in the US ...

  9. Nations and IQ - Wikipedia

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    David Marks (2010) argues that differences in average IQ scores between national groups and across time periods can be fully accounted for by differences in literacy levels, and that "IQ distributions will converge if opportunities are equalized for different population groups to achieve the same high level of literacy skills." [23]