This is how the Indians (dot) managed to fool the US by watching and calculating when the US Eye Spys went over and simply went inside until they passed when they were building their nuclear bomb program. Or, as my Chinese-American brother-in-law loves to point out at the dinner table, Asians tend to have the highest IQ and Academic scores.
I'm sure the African American ladies who NASA used in the early days as Human Calculators (aka computers) featured in Hidden Figures would also find this interesting. So would Dr. Ben Caron, who Nightwolf said may yet get a noble prize for his groundbreaking work in pediatric neurosurgery, regardless of what he does on politics.
Modern IQ tests are for education, which is why they are a good predictor of how a child may do in the educational system.
And yes, I agree that "affirmative hires," especially in the sciences, is nonsense. Not only does it lead to bad science (and fatal engineering mistakes), but it is also LAZY. Plenty of qualified Ph. Ds and highly trained people earned their educations and training. Hiring them is a good idea when hiring white people, too. You want the best person for the job. Quotas of any sort, especially in the sciences and engineering, are a bad idea.
Another factor is a more specific examination of both the IQ testing levels and the cultural/moral imperative behind social progress. For instance.......while North Asians as a rule test in a higher mean IQ than Western Whites once you get beyond 140 in IQ the Asians start to drop off. While no Black in 11 million tests has ever tested higher than 147 there is a unique domain in the rare 150 plus IQ testing are that is dominated by White males out of the same amount of population tested (11 million) including even Asians.........
......now the other factor is culturally the impact on the cognitive ability. For instance, in the West we prize individual rights and freedoms and admire those who take chances and risk for greatness...........which is essential for taking bright people and accomplishing something with them. This is why the West explored the world and heavens before everyone else........ including the so labeled overall brighter Northern Asian population.
In the Eastern mind set of those smart Northern Asians had a cultural tradition that is not focused on the individual but the collective community.....for the Eastern mindset risk taking means the possibility of failure which brings shame to your family and community. Hence innovation in the historical cultural tradition of Asians has lagged behind because of that cultural mindset. Not so much today since they are so strongly influence by the West in the global community nowadays but going back as little as 20 to 40 years ago that was common place.
There is no more telling example of large scale IQ mean of a population its is functioning than to see what happens to a country/city where former White colonialism is abandoned or leaves the native population and examine what happens to that area when the collective higher IQ innovative population leaves.............with Blacks look at the state of Haiti, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) the Congo and South Africa today after the White man's rule ended there........the overall low IQ population cannot maintain an economy nor infrastructure to support society and they turn everything into dystrophia existence over time.
Now contrast that same situation with Hong Kong....................here was a colonial hold......that was built, maintained and run by Whites who in 1999 ended their contractual reign with the Asians and left it to be run by the native Asians............and how is it doing today?.....................
Wonderfully, in fact they have been able to even improve some aspects of their economy and infrastructure. That is the result of a population with a mean IQ high enough to be able to understand and maintain a modern society.
There is no better example of race and the large scale impact of cognitive functioning (as measured by IQ) that this example of Whites handing over rule to Blacks or Asians and observing the results of that.
Overall thought its not the complete picture..............There are 3 factors here essential to human society on a large scale functioning properly and they are ...1) the mean population IQ..............2) the right cultural imperatives (individual rights and risk taking)......... and 3) general population moral construct (trust, care and cooperation)........... in order to create and maintain a large scale modern society. If any large population fails in any 3 of those factors society will suffer.
