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Originally posted by punkworld
The mere fact that there are differences in results among different cultures implies that these tests are not objective.
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This is whats causing the problem. That statment, the foundation of your theory, rests upon the implicit assumption that all other things being equal, people of different races/cultures should have precisely the same intellectual abilities, and if a test shows a difference, its the test thats at fault, not the people.
Problem: there is very little reaon to suppose that implicit assumption is true, and alot of reason to suppose it isn't. People from different races have differing average heights, muscular compositions, tolerances to alcohol, aerobic capacities, body fat levels, and so forth. It is logical, authough very politically incorrect right now, to assume these differences extend to intellectual capacities, because they also appear to be somewhat genetically determined.
Also, as I said before, that implicit assumption makes the whole bias enterprise an ad hoc hypothesis. If you merely assume a priori that any difference in result must be the fault of the test, you have a theory which can explain any data point after the fact, and which cannot be falsified. So its both ad hoc and universal