On balance Caucasians have a Higher IQ than African Americans

Disclaimer : I do not actually believe in this resolution. This is merely used as shock value to undermine and challenge the criteria by which intelligence is measured. We are debating per the resolution, about whether or not Caucasians on balance have a higher iq than African Americans. This is not stating African Americans are less intelligent than Caucasians but that they do in fact have a lower IQ on average. Double Note : I am not racist, I am doing this to spark discussion. My fiance is half black, and I love chocolate because it tastes amazing. Now on to the debateC1) IQ test resultsThe IQ test itself stand for the Intelligence quotient. Intelligence quotient - an intelligence test score that is obtained by dividing mental age, which reflects the age-graded level of performance as derived from population norms, by chronological age and multiplying by 100: a score of 100 thus indicates a performance at exactly the normal level for that age group. [1]There are different statistics and studies that show different results from this test in general but they do have a general theme. This debate is about a normative basis of said results when compared to ethnicity. 3 of the major trends we see in these tests are that Asian Americans tend to score the highest, with Caucasians being in the middle, and African Americans at the bottom of the chain[2]. The issue at hand is not whether there is an IQ gap, but why there is a Gap. We are not debating the factors that lead up to the gap or why the gap exists, but this is a debate about acknowledging the fact that a gap does exist. There are varying factors that could contribute to the gap itself. Genetics, socioeconomic situations, and many other factors have been put out as a reason for the gap existing. The one thing we have to acknowledge though, is that these objections about why the gap exists validates the fact that the gap does actually exist thus affirming the resolution. Professor Arthur Jensen professor of educational psychology at the University of California , Berkeley has devoted a great deal of time and work into finding out why this IQ gap exists between Caucasians and African Americans. Again the fact that people are trying to find out why the Gap is there, just furthers the fact that the Gap exists thus affirming the resolution that there is a generally a gap and that Caucasians have the higher IQ on balance. Professor Jensen acknowledges this in quite a few of his studies"Despite staggering advances in genetic technology, the dispute between hereditarians and environmentalists over the causes of the average fifteen point IQ difference between blacks and whites' is stalemated " [3]This belief is not just held by Jensen but by a quite a few other professors. Jensen studies focus on the genetic causes of the IQ gap and other professors such as J. Philippe Rushton and Richard Lynn also hold the same view about the genetic causes of the gap. So since we can acknowledge there is a gap (this study was a few years back), I have show there is still a gap as of now. There is good news regarding the GAP and that is African Americans have reduced the gap by a small margin over the past few years. The problem is that reducing the gap does not negate the fact that a gap exists. The gap still remains between 1.1 to 1.5 and is shown and verified by multiple studies including the wechsler and stanford-binet IQ tests [4]IQ, test scores, SAT scores, etc all factor into an achievement gap as well. See graphs below On balance there is no debating that tests that are used to measure intellect are significantly higher for Caucasians than African Americans no matter what we attribute the cause too. In the past this led to quite a few controversial discussions, one of which was the Bell Curve debate which was sparked by the book, The Bell Curve[5]. The book itself verified there was an IQ gap between Caucasians and African Americans and led to a massive debate over the factors that contribute to the gap and if there was indeed one at all. This led the American Psychological Association to respond with a report called Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns [6]. The APA then acknowledged that there was a gap in one of the most controversial admissions ever written about the issue, but then clarified that they were not sure why the gap existed. ConclusionThere is a gap that exists, but the factors that cause the gap are still unknown. The gap itself also does not measure knowledge in general but the results from the test which is labeled as IQ results. This by no means states that Caucasians are smarter than African Americans but it does affirm there is a significant gap in the IQ difference between both races. Thus the resolution is affirmed[1] http://dictionary.reference.com...[2] http://www.princeton.edu...[3] http://www.mmisi.org...[4] http://www.brookings.edu...[5] https://www.aei.org...[6] http://www.gifted.uconn.edu...