The NFC North Remembers <| sep |> Easy Satan <| sep |> I ' d buy a plane ticket immediately to go to Matt ' s eventual Bible Black Club Recruitment Panel <| sep |> The little pay thing varies wildly . There ' s an ATT call center near me that starts you off at like $ 13 an hour . <| sep |> Definitely it does . <| sep |> For those passing through who are questioning uClcore ' s opinion , I ask that you take a moment and keep reading . Looking at the IQ scores of blacks and whites , blacks score lower than whites by about 15 points . This statistic of course , doesn ' t take into account anything other than race . Let ' s go through why most of the academic community isn ' t concerned about this . 1 The gap we see here is not at all unique . There have been many instances of populations of people with lower than average IQ that have closed the gap entirely . For example , women used to score far lower than men on IQ tests . This is no longer the case since women have gotten more educated . In this case , we are starting to see the IQs of women surpass those of men in general . Another example is the IQ data gathered from East and West Germany prior to unification . East and West Germans were are genetically indistinguishable , but there was a gap between the two reaching 17 points in some areas . If you take IQ as being mostly genetic , these results are highly problematic . Lastly , a third example is the Flynn effect . This is the well documented phenomenon that observes populations IQs rising as they develop economically . The average black person today gets the same score as the average white person did in the US in the year 1950 . The average black person ' s score is 15 points higher than the average white person just 100 short years ago . Unless you think there was a major genetic change in whites in the past 50100 years , the rise in scores for both races was due to environmental changes . Whites have simply enjoyed a higher standard of living then and now which leads to them having environments more conducive to learning . I know I said that was the last example I ' d give , but let me do one more because I think it illustrates my point . Another big difference in IQ scores can be seen between northern Americans and Americans in the South . In fact , there have been studies done where blacks in the north scored higher on IQ tests than whites in the south . Are northerners different genetically than southerners ? If not , then why the difference ? If we accept whatever that difference is , why are you not using that to explain the black white difference ? The above examples give pause to the idea that IQs for groups are set in stone they 100 % are not and that ' s a fact and that genetics are the primary determination of a persons cognitive ability . 2 IQ scores only measure one type of intelligence poorlyIQ scores can only measure one type of intelligence , and it doesn ' t even do that as well as we ' d like . IQ tests don ' t accurately measure strategic intelligence , or even creative intelligence . This is a huge problem since these forms of intelligence that the IQ tests cannot measure are some of the most important . Creativity lies at the soul of every major invention . It lies in the soul of every song , movie or play . Similar things can be said of strategic thinking . Would we think worse of people like Jimi Hendrix and Ghengis Khan if we found out they scored low on an IQ test . If we would , we probably shouldn ' t . 3 IQ scores cannot measure potentialThere are certain types of questions asked on IQ tests that you can get better at with practice . For example , pattern recognition and memorization are two things you can improve on drastically throughout your life if you practice . This has two problems . One , it gives advantages to people who do similar kinds of thinking activities daily this explains some of the Flynn effect we discussed earlier . Two , we may mistake someone had a low genetic limit based on someone not normally having to perform those kinds of activities , or not having as good of tools throughout their lives . Here is someone discussing this here . 4 At this point people will often say that when you control for certain variables the differences don ' t entirely disappear . For one , the differences fall away quite rapidly once you start controlling for things income and neighborhoods mostly . Second , we have no way of controlling for other things that effect IQ testing scores . One such example is Stereotype Threat . This is a phenomena that we ' ve seen in not only IQ scores , but in math , reading , sports and essentially any other area where a stereotype exists . Stereotype threat is the phenomena that shows people perform worse if there is a fear that they will further a certain stereotype about themselves . The presence of this cannot be totally corrected for although it can be manipulated somewhat . Again , another example is cultural differences . We know that there are many ways that different races raise their children that influence their cognitive development . I really want to wrap this up , but one such example is the word gap .