On Apr 9, 5:08*pm, George Plimpton wrote:


That can't be it. *IQ does not measure what people have learned; it
measures ability to learn. *IQ tests are administered beginning at ages
well below where the anti-scholastic social values of blacks begin to
set the tone in school.


That is the theory. But it is hard to separate the ability to learn
from what has been learned. Obviously a kid with a high ability to
learn will have learned more than a kid with a low ability to learn.
It is pretty much impossible to create an IQ test that asks questions
that no one has ever seen. So the kid that has learned a lot will get
questions that are similar to questions the kid has seen.

Dan