Mind the Gap

Steve Sailer Taki's Magazine, May 31, 2023

Is the white-black IQ gap shrinking in the United States?  Although many assume that the existence of sizable disparities in average IQ among the races simply must be “pseudoscience,” that different ethnicities average different levels of mental ability is one of the most overwhelmingly well-established findings of the social sciences.  Exactly why ancestral groups have varying IQs remains controversial, but the fact that they do is not disputed among the well-informed. A general rule of thumb among researchers has long been that whites and blacks differ in average IQ by about one standard deviation.  “Racial intelligence differences are real, large, crucial for understanding American society, and not going away anytime soon.”.............It’s something we have to live with........... the manifold effects of the intelligence gap don’t justify the current paranoid conspiracy theorizing about white racism.

Much of the madness of the 2020s, such as the post–George Floyd murder and car crash sprees and California’s reparations plans, is likely attributable to blacks figuring out that they weren’t going to catch up but that they could guilt-trip whites into paying reparations because whites have been disarmed of mentioning the IQ and crime gaps. A new culture in which the basic truths of the social sciences are widely discussed would be a better one than what we have been saddled with in the present decade.............To Read More..