re: Men Ain't Boys -- Powerful new DVD coming out on black men & fatherhood

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Great links! Your first link had nothing to do with race, your second specifically said whites have higher IQ than blacks and your third once again had nothing to do with race.

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Here are a few peer reviewed, published studies that tie what you would call IQ and academic success more to socioeconomics than race. Paraphrasing SPF earlier, the effects of PTSD and poverty on brain development makes it damn near impossible to correlate race and IQ. Race and poverty strongly correlate with socioeconomic status.

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Results demonstrate that the proportions of IQ
variance attributable to genes and environment vary nonlinearly with
SES. The models suggest that in impoverished families, 60% of the variance
in IQ is accounted for by the shared environment, and the contribution
of genes is close to zero; in affluent families, the result is almost
exactly the reverse

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IQs were also higher among children of mothers with more education and who were married during the prenatal period, and of fathers who lived in the home. IQs were lower among children of mothers who were under 20 years of age, who had had several prior pregnancies, who were older at menarche, and who were shorter. Mean IQs were higher for children whose mothers had better prenatal care, longer pregnancies, heavier placentas, deliveries not assisted by forceps, and among children with larger height, weight, and head circumference measurements at 4, 8, 12, and 48 months

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The results demonstrate that intelligence is a powerful predictor of success but, on the whole, not an overwhelmingly better predictor than parental SES or grades.

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