Black Americans reduce the racial IQ gap - Evidence from standardization samples

被引:53
作者
Dickens, William T.
Flynn, James R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Otago, Dept Polit Studies, Dunedin, New Zealand
[2] Brookings Inst, Washington, DC 20036 USA
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10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01802.x
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
It is often asserted that Black Americans have made no IQ gains on White Americans. Until recently, there have been no adequate data to measure trends in Black IQ. We analyzed data from nine standardization samples for four major tests of cognitive ability. These data suggest that Blacks gained 4 to 7 IQ points on non-Hispanic Whites between 1972 and 2002. Gains have been fairly uniform across the entire range of Black cognitive ability.
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