Why are you so confident that the IQ test is measuring "intelligence"?
The causes of wealth, scholastic performance, etc. are quite important for policy. Therefore we should hold a higher burden of proof for causal inference on those topics than, say, the communication mechanisms of ants.
It's not that folks are sweeping differences under the rug. It's that they're saying the differences might not be the things you're saying they are.
The causes of wealth, scholastic performance, etc. are quite important for policy. Therefore we should hold a higher burden of proof for causal inference on those topics than, say, the communication mechanisms of ants.
It's not that folks are sweeping differences under the rug. It's that they're saying the differences might not be the things you're saying they are.