What is your honest opinion on racial differences in IQ? From findings in books like the "Bell curve" by Charle's Murray and "Why Race Matters"

by Michael Levin? Do you think that there is any truth and science to it or do you think that it is pseudoscience to push eugenics and a political agenda? If you do believe that the racial differences in IQ are legitimate, what do you believe the reasons for that are? Do you believe that race matters?

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IQ has genetic components, as intelligence is heritable. External factors seem negligible to me. The only one that matters is being able to read and learn, and people who do not do enough of this can still have a high IQ. Individuals who come from dysfunctional backgrounds can have a high IQ. Our environment is not very important with regard to intelligence and what we can score in IQ tests.

We need to consider that intelligence is what makes a person read a book or calculate a sum, not vice versa. The former comes before the latter. A high IQ also does not mean that the individual will become an academic success, or success in any other regard.