>>12543937They are valid, but only insofar as what IQ actually means.
If you did an IQ test with different weighting or different coverage your map would look different, and still be just as valid.
Africa would probably bottom out in most tests.
In Australia this is a hot button issue and universities are regularly censored for publishing findings that claim or even infer cognitive deficit in indigenous people.
Someone cries that substance abuse, poverty is a third variable- when you control for that variable they claim testing bias.
When you attempt to devise a test that Aboriginal people perform on par with the general population, you get a lot of support- but after a few months of finding that ebil white people beat aboriginals in their own tests you go back to marxist literature and writing columns for the papers
