The IQ data may actually be correct...

[Warpy]

1. Pretty much.

I always thought they indicated one's ability in taking the tests, nothing more. And I do quite well on them.

Conversely, my best friend in junior high had been labeled retarded because she had been completely unable to learn to read. This was a very long time ago, and considering the hell we raised and all we got into together, I have to think she was dyslexic, not learning impaired. She did poorly on the tests simply because she couldn't read them.

The researcher in question probably got a mixture of dyslexia of various types, the language barrier, and cultural bias inherent in many tests and concluded that his study group was low IQ because of it.

I just know that every single group that has come to this country in large number has faced the same "they're just not smart" prejudice, only to leave the WASPs in the dust after they'd been here a generation or two.

You have to be very, very careful about this stuff and I sincerely doubt Richwine was careful, at all.