I don’t have confidence in race as a determining factor. Make a good argument, but. Make a political argument, but.This suggest that there is a very strong cultural component. Which, given the very strong correlation of race and culture in this country, could explain a lot. They have similar issues in Britain, absent the racial connotations. The combination of cynicism about society with naïveté about government (i.e., socialism) is that toxic.
- The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day. When intelligence quotient (IQ) tests are initially standardized using a sample of test-takers, by convention the average of the test results is set to 100 and their standard deviation is set to 15 or 16 IQ points. When IQ tests are revised, they are again standardized using a new sample of test-takers, usually born more recently than the first. Again, the average result is set to 100. However, when the new test subjects take the older tests, in almost every case their average scores are significantly above 100.
So you think all are the same? Try reading the Bell Curve. Do you also think a Border Collie is no more intelligent than a Bassett Hound? Have you checked out the accomplishments of an entire continent of Africans? BTW, Wikipedia is not some fountain of truth. Any rube can post as they wish.