Agree IQ is necessary but not sufficient. There is much to consider and learn on just what IS both necessary and sufficient by examining South Africa's devolution over the last 3 decades—hint: it ain't Wakanda over there. Yes, the African immigrant thing is almost certainly selection biased, but that doesn't mean the USA doesn't benefit substantially, in many ways, from importing high(er)-IQ blacks into its racial/ethnic mix.
The best data and analysis I've seen on the post-Civil Rights crash of President Johnson's Great Society dream, especially as regards American blacks is found in Charles Murray's 1984 "Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980," arguably one of his most important works in a pantheon of stellar analyses and critiques of American social policy. I encourage everyone interested in race relations and Glenn's "development narrative" to read Murray's incisive examination of just what went wrong and why.
I'd guess the Scrabble thing is cultural, much like the dominance of Asian Indians in spelling bees and the (passing?) fad of chess-playing black kids mostly in the American Northeast some years ago (may still be going on, I don't know).
Agree IQ is necessary but not sufficient. There is much to consider and learn on just what IS both necessary and sufficient by examining South Africa's devolution over the last 3 decades—hint: it ain't Wakanda over there. Yes, the African immigrant thing is almost certainly selection biased, but that doesn't mean the USA doesn't benefit substantially, in many ways, from importing high(er)-IQ blacks into its racial/ethnic mix.
The best data and analysis I've seen on the post-Civil Rights crash of President Johnson's Great Society dream, especially as regards American blacks is found in Charles Murray's 1984 "Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980," arguably one of his most important works in a pantheon of stellar analyses and critiques of American social policy. I encourage everyone interested in race relations and Glenn's "development narrative" to read Murray's incisive examination of just what went wrong and why.
I'd guess the Scrabble thing is cultural, much like the dominance of Asian Indians in spelling bees and the (passing?) fad of chess-playing black kids mostly in the American Northeast some years ago (may still be going on, I don't know).