re: #63 The Nightmare of the five Orders of Beggars

As a whole, certainly not. Too complex. Nevertheless, IQ tests do help to get a glimpse of that aspect of intelligence that answers for “abstract reasoning, problem-solving abilities, and capacity to acquire knowledge” (Richard Nisbett, Intelligence and how to get it, 2009, p. 4).

Granted, they can be useful tools, and they can demonstarate that certain types of intelligence are related to race in some manner, but it’s just that leap to “white people are genetically more intelligent thatn blacks because they do better on IQ tests” that amazes me.