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>>2462742
Since this was the best post, I'll add my comments as a reply.
>No serious scholar believes this. Intelligence is g, i.e. the common factor of everything that requires intelligence i.e. intelligence tests, complex problem solving, high skill jobs etc.
I think the weighting of components on the IQ test can be said to line up with the skills most useful to a modern economy (i.e. where most such test are administered). Native Americans have a pattern of advantage on tests of spatial reasoning (and big cranial capacity), and are most likely better at navigating and like tasks.
But verbal/mathematical skills have greater economic value, and populations with a long history of agriculture (a way of life with more in common with ours) tend to do better on these.
I would also like to point out that the black-white income disparity largely disappears when IQ is controlled for, and the gap in education disappears completely. Some posters don't seem to be aware of that.