I’ve wanted to ask this question for a while now, but I couldn’t figure out how to phrase it without it sounding like bait. I still can’t.

I’m looking for anons who normally roll their eyes at these threads, because I know the regulars all have an agenda. Unfortunately, there’s no way to keep this purely scientific. In America, consensus is split evenly down political party lines despite there being no incentive for either side to take a stance. The explanation always breaks down into one of two arguments.

The left-wing argument is that the test questions are arbitrary. Tests are developed almost entirely by human imagination, as in mathematics, but without a mechanism to rigorously prove that any given question is valid. Likewise, since everyone wants to have a high IQ, bias in the answers is unavoidable.

The other side takes things at face value, and points to the correlation between any ethnicity’s average IQ and either the prosperity of their country of origin or historical individual achievements.

Literally both arguments seem rock-solid to me. Is it possible somehow for neither, or both, to be true?
Jfc I can’t believe I made this thread. I am so sorry.