I’ve got to agree with both of you. Culture and opportunity no doubt contribute to disparities in real-world educational levels, income and general life success. But the substantial, consistent difference in IQ tests really can’t be written off to primarily cultural differences. As puroresu points out, the old correlation-causation confusion pertains.
Do people really think culture is the only difference between your typical valedictorian and those, on average, at the bottom of the class? That culture is the difference between the brightest and the least bright in the typical workplace?
The sooner we get over the sensitivities here, the sooner we will stop watering down education on all levels.
You’ve got to take into account ...
—White kids are propagandized for 12 years in the school system (plus college) to feel guilt and shame for being white.
—Asian kids have no such handicap.