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Direct linkLynn, Richard; Meisenberg, Gerhard – Intelligence, 2010
Wicherts, Dolan, and van der Maas (2009) contend that the average IQ of sub-Saharan Africans is about 80. A critical evaluation of the studies presented by WDM shows that many of these are based on unrepresentative elite samples. We show that studies of 29 acceptably representative samples on tests other than the Progressive Matrices give a…
Descriptors: International Studies, Criticism, Intelligence Quotient, Foreign Countries
Wicherts, Jelte M.; Dolan, Conor V.; van der Maas, Han L. J. – Intelligence, 2010
In this rejoinder, we criticize Lynn and Meisenberg's (this issue) methods to estimate the average IQ (in terms of British norms after correction of the Flynn Effect) of the Black population of sub-Saharan Africa. We argue that their review of the literature is unsystematic, as it involves the inconsistent use of rules to determine the…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Intelligence Quotient, Foreign Countries, Criticism
