According to the Nova Scotia News, one of the major uses of IQ testing today is to determine the IQ of convicted felons like Robert Pickton in order to determine if they were mentally able to commit the crime. Robert Pickton’s IQ was 86, deemed by the defense team to be too low to be [...]
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American Nobel Prize-winning scientist, James Watson, created more controversy recently around the racial issues in IQ testing by being quoted as saying he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours whereas all testing says not really.” [...]
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Arguments about race and IQ show up about once every ten years and always seem to cause a fuss. The real question is, however, do they really mean anything? The evidence appears real that IQ does differ between racial groups and that blacks score on average fifteen points less than Caucasians and that the Chinese [...]
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