The IQ Gap is No Longer a Black and White Issue

Chanda Chisala
16 min readJun 25, 2015

If only environmental factors were responsible for the different IQs of different populations, we should expect to find some countries where Africans had higher IQs than Europeans. The failure to find a single country where this is the case points to the presence of a strong genetic factor.” Richard Lynn.

Regression would explain why Black children born to high IQ, wealthy Black parents have test scores 2 to 4 points lower than do White children born to low IQ, poor White parents.” Arthur Jensen.

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Chanda Chisala

Two-time Visiting Scholar to the Hoover Institute, Stanford University. Writer, originally from Zambia, Africa. Politics, psychometrics, theology, economics.