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rick James said:I don't know if you can trace behaviour to a lack of IQ or not. But numerous studies have shown black people, and paticularly aboriginals to have a lower IQ than white people..
personally I think IQ means bugger all, but it is a well known, but hardly publicised fact.
Actually, there are studies quite to the contrary. The ambiguities lie in how IQ is determined or measured.
In conventional IQ tests, e.g. using pen and paper etc. it is true that white children will generally have higher IQ's than aboriginal children. However, when the IQ test is altered so that the tasks performed are more specific to aboriginal culture, such as art, logical thinking (the children had to figure out how to retrieve an item from various places with only sticks) the aboriginal children excelled over the white children.
So the average IQ of white vs black australians can be manipulated to suit either side, and is essentially determined by the way the test is formed.







