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Study links IQ gaps to sociocultural factors not race
Riverside UC sociologist Dr. Jane Mercer reports that seven sociocultural factors erase about 15 IQ point gaps between white, Black, and Chicano groups. Her analysis on 180 persons per group found initial 30 percent variance due to ethnicity shrank to under 1 percent after factoring in family achievement beliefs linguistic barriers maternal participation anxiety testing familiarity neighborhood segregation and family ties. The remaining 1 percent could be tied to unmeasured physical attributes.
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Mercer
William Shackley
Stanford University
Arthur Jensen
Berkeley
University of California
Jensen
Council For the Advancement of Science
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Riverside
Shock- Jey