Richard Lynn on Race Differences in Intelligence

Edward Dutton, Mankind Quarterly, Summer 2016

Richard Lynn, Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis, 2nd Revised Edition, Washington Summit Publishers, 2015, 425 pp., $27.95.
 

Reviewed by Edward Dutton, University of Oulu

 

Richard Lynn is perhaps best known for his work on national differences in IQ, conducted with Tatu Vanhanen. In 2006, in the first edition of this book, he brought together all the studies then known to calculate race differences in intelligence. This second revised edition adds another 100 pages and many more studies to Richard Lynn’s first definitive compilation of racial IQs. The conclusions given in the first edition are largely confirmed by many more studies in this new edition and are summarized in the table below.

 

 

Please read the whole article as there are important caveats.  RK