hexi [they/them]

The ASVAB is considered one of the accepted forms of IQ tests, as long it is proctored, like the NLSY does.

Other studies might use other IQ tests like the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test.

The youngest of the cohort in 1979 was 14, since segregation was only officially ended in 1965, it once again seems more likely the legacy of segregation and America’s continued racist culture had a larger impact on outcomes than IQ test scores to me.

Everything in this ignores what I said in my first comment: this persists within the same racial group

Segregation explains nothing about why people of the same race would perform differently based on IQ scores when they were young.

the National Longitudinal Study of Youth doesn’t even test for IQ, this has been a waste of time.

Yes it does, it’s one of the most widely cited studies for IQ research. My uni had the class do a research project based on this study, you might just be looking at the wrong page.

I never said it was genetically heritable, my point is simply that it’s predictive of future life outcomes.

The source being the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, which has shown this with each cohort tested.

Using that same logic, Hitler was a vegetarian, so vegetarians must be racist.

Or, a more mature response, sometimes real things get misused by racists. IQ test predict performance with the same self-identified racial groups, so what explains that? It can’t be racism, since they are the same race.

Then why does the National Longitudinal Study of Youth show that people who do well on IQ tests at a young age do so much better later in life? They make higher incomes and are less likely to be imprisoned.

This is after controlling for race, or income. People with higher IQ scores do better than people of the same race with lower scores. Among high-income people, those with higher IQs do better. Among the poor, high IQ people end up better off later in life than those born in the same conditions.

Each time IQ comes up here, everyone ignores that study. The NLSY ahs been done on multiple cohorts, and shows the same results each time.

Usually the response is just to call people names like “racist” despite this factor being show within the same race.

I’ve met more people that simply have the “I don’t know, who cares?” attitude than people who actually ask questions and discuss issues, with some sort of articulateable reason for why something happened.

It’s not an age issue, some people overthink everything when their a kid and older, while other people can’t comprehend why anyone would want to ask questions.