>However, it would be interesting to hear someone explain how they were designed by racists to be racist.
No one in this thread has claimed this. Stop trying to invent a polemic.
It just turns out that whatever IQ does measure correlates heavily with income and where you were born which in turn correlates with race.
Yes, also with high job performance. Actually, IQ correlates with income regardless of family background. That's exactly why it's useful.
I tried to pry the source from JSTOR but failed miserably so here's a crappy pdf copy of "Income Inequality and IQ" http://www.aei.org/book/society-and-culture/citizenship/inco...
Note that this comment was posted before raganwald wrote "and possibly deliberately so," above. So it's not as obtuse as it looks.
>However, it would be interesting to hear someone explain how they were designed by racists to be racist.
No one in this thread has claimed this. Stop trying to invent a polemic.
It just turns out that whatever IQ does measure correlates heavily with income and where you were born which in turn correlates with race.