Intelligence & Race

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" A number of efforts have been made since the onset of the scientific age toward measuring various traits in order to identify specific characteristics differentiating racial characteristics, often in an attempt to show that certain groups are inferior to the majority Caucasian group. Such "scientific rationality" often tries to prove that such characteristics as intelligence are racially linked, and statistics are developed to show that whites on the average are more intelligent than blacks and that there is a biological basis to differences seen in test scores. Such efforts have been undertaken many times in this century, most recently in the book The Bell Curve, which revived an old debate as to the possibility of proving this sort of theory and the biased nature of intelligence tests. An examination shows that scientific rationality continues to be.."

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