ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a basic question of race differences in intelligence, and popular controversy. The controversy centres around two propositions. These are: different sets of people have different levels of intelligence and the differences in intelligence between these sets of people is largely hereditary. The accepted view among most psychologists for most of this century has been that there is no average difference in intelligence between different racial groups, and that the differences in IQs which have been widely reported are due to deficiencies in the tests. This prevailing dogma is part of the liberal, humanist, ideology to which the majority of psychologists have attested. The chapter discusses a few of the differences in IQ, highly complex and technical question of heritability of IQ, and some comments on heritability indices. Differences in IQ between white Anglo-Saxons and Bushmen, and between white Anglo-Saxons and Japanese, are as likely to reflect various artifacts and cultural differences as differences in innate intelligence.
