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I don't doubt that, but there is always a danger of coming to the conclusion that IQ and intelligence mean the same thing. They don't.
It has useful predictive capacity in a group that share a wide cross-section of common experience. Getting a lower IQ score may not mean that the person is less intelligent; in cross cultural groups it may mean that they perform worse at that type of test because it is not suited to them as well as it is to you. Of course, if they DO perform badly in a series of IQ tests, you can reasonably predict that they will have difficulties competing later on with the ones who have done well - but not necessarily because they have less intelligence.
How do you fill a country with low IQ people?
Correction. Some people who do IQ tests who don't have the same cultural advantages as the ones of the dominant group will not perform as well in those tests. It does NOT mean that they are 'not as bright' - if by that you mean they are not as intelligent. IQ tests rely strongly on symbolic language and culture-based concepts. Those symbols and concepts are not universal, even though some designers of IQ tests think they are.
And do you seriously believe that the reason for this is nothing more than that they are 'not as bright' as whites? If you do, then all your reading on the subject of intelligence has been wasted.
You can double a country's crime rate by importing people or allowing them to immigrate, and then treating them like second clbutt citizens. That has nothing to do with intelligence. If you believe, as you say you do, that 'some races' are inferior intellectually to whites, then when you just look at them, you will pbutt on your feeling of superiority, and that could be just as great a contributing factor to the creation of a crime as low intelligence. I hope you're intelligent enough to see the connection.
Rifty
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