It wouldn't surprise me in the least if different groups of humans had different abilities, no more than that German Shepards are smarter than Golden Retrievers.
I suspect that the real problem with correlating "race" and IQ is that the race data is aggregated, and should be disaggregated. Lumped into "black" and "white" are some very large differences.
Back in slavery days, members of certain tribes were considered ideal for tasks requiring intelligence and judgment, e.g., Woloff, Mandinka, while certain others were considered only fit for working in the fields, e.g., Congo.
Maybe it was simply racism, as Congo people are darker, but it seems to me that those who used these people as slaves had the best perspective on their abilities. Or maybe it was merely cultural, remember that Romans liked to use Jews and Greeks as house slaves because they were more trainable than Germans - to state the obvious, Germans are far "whiter" than Greeks, phenotypically, and nowadays we don't think there is much difference between them IQ-wise, at least I don't.
On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if there was no difference whatsoever. |
