Graduate Record Exam

Bell Curves & Gaussian Distribution

As if though the race and gender gap wasn’t already huge enough, there was another huge but completely unreported [and as yet, unexplained] jump in the gap in the 2000-2001 tests

 

Race/sex gap leaps from 234 to 267 points. Ain't no black geniuses. The top 97% of applicants to the University of Texas are WHITE men who are DENIED ADMISSION. University of Texas applicants are representative of nationwide scores. The distribution of GRE scores are equivalent to that for MCAT scores. This pattern is identical with SAT, TIMSS, and all other standardized test scores. Race and sex differences are 20 times greater than year to year variations in GRE test scores.

GRE vs. IQ

The correlation of Graduate Record Exam quantitative scores with IQ's enables us to express the huge race and sex differences in terms that more people might understand or appreciate.  Where many people might not grasp what a 234 GRE point spread between Asian men and black women means, expressing it as a 61 point spread in IQ might make more sense.  This is a test that more than one quarter of a million students spend a lot of money to take very year, because they know that both graduate schools and employers depend heavily on the outcome of these scores in admissions and hiring decisions.  Whatever quantity is measured by this test is a desirable feature in both students and employees.  People who don't do well on this test aren't, or should not be, hired or admitted, even under affirmative action programs.

Year after year, from test to test, gaps between races and the sexes have been fairly consistent [other than the as-yet unexplained jump in the gap between 1997 and 2001].  Within each race, when expressed as IQ, the gap between black men and black women is the lowest, with black men scoring 10 points higher than black women.  The biggest gap is 19 points for "Other Hispanic", "White", and "Other".  The gap between Asian men and women, and Mexican men and women, is 17 points.  Puerto Ricans are at 16, and American Indians are at 13.

As seen in the graph above, within each sex, the IQ of Asian men is 116, which is 13 points higher than White men at 103, and 51 points higher than black men at 65; and the IQ of Asian women is 99, which is 15 points higher than White women at 84, and 44 points higher than black women at 55.

Across races and sexes, the most notable points are that the average IQ of White women is equal to Mexican men, 1 point higher than Indian and "Other" men, 2 points higher than Puerto Rican men, and 19 points higher than black men, whereas the IQ of black women is 28 points lower than Indian men and 61 points lower than Asian men.

Is it reasonable to believe that American black women have an average IQ of 55 rather than the 85 touted in the news media?  Could reality be 30 points lower than perception?  What other evidence is there to support it?

Without worrying too much about why females within each race score the equivalent of 13 to 19 IQ points lower than males within each race, and accepting point blank that whatever is being measured is of value to both industry and education, this 10 point gender gap is predicted, explainable, and completely reasonable.  Many different ways of measuring IQs in Africa have confirmed that two African nations have an average IQ of 59, and two dozen nations have an average IQ lower than 70.  It's reasonable to believe that those who had been taken as slaves were not selected from the intelligentsia, as the purpose of slavery was brawn, not brains.  It's not unreasonable to believe that the average IQ for slaves was from the lowest intellectual strata of Africa, or 55 for women and 65 for men.  And there's no reason to believe that this average increased during slavery, by miscegenation with Caucasoids, nor by the huge education expenditures which left them with the world's highest murder and violent crime rates.

	Group1 Mean GRE Quantitative Score Lynn IQ Adjusted American Indian 479 75 Men 511 83 Women 459 70 Asian/Pacific 598 106 Men 638 116 Women 572 99 Black/African 416 58 Men 446 65 Women 404 55 Mexican American 475 73 Men 517 84 Women 451 67 Puerto Rican 471 74 Men 504 82 Women 448 66 Other Hispanic 495 79 Men 543 91 Women 469 72 White 540 90 Men 586 103 Women 514 84 Other 541 90 Men 583 102 Women 509 83   Race/sex Gap JUMPS From 234 to 267 Points Why the news media blackout on this VITAL issue at a time when discussions about the quality of education had reached a crescendo?  Why did the media convey the false impression that “the gender gap is decreasing”, at a time when it actually leapfrogged?  For three years, the gender/race gap in GRE scores was fairly constant, but then suddenly on the Quantitative Scores of the 2000-2001 test: ·         The gap between Asian men and Black women jumped from 234 to 267 points. ·         The gap between White men and Black women jumped from 182 to 199 points. ·         The gap between Asian men and Asian women jumped from 66 to 72 points. ·         The gap between Indian men and Indian women jumped from 52 to 68 points. ·         The gap between Mexican men and Mexican women jumped from 66 to 71 points. ·         The gap between Black men and Black women jumped from 42 to 45 points. ·         The gap between “Other” men and “Other” women increased from 74 to 75 points. ·         The gap between all men and all women increased from 73 to 76 points. At the very same time these gender and racial differences were WIDENING SIGNIFICANTLY, we also had IDIOT RACISTS and IDIOT SEXISTS proposing “solutions” like the following from the infamous FAME report: “The last issue I have been pondering has been what if there were no differences between white males and other groups, and, even, what if we developed a measure where white males were 80-100 points lower than other groups? What would the role of this measure be in the graduate admissions process?” Ironically, even punishing White men even more than they’ve already been punished still won’t solve your putative “problem”:  they’d STILL out perform every other race and every other sex by a MILE!  It’s encouraging that, with such political or politically correct pressure on GRE to dumb down, water down, nullify, or even NEGATE the purpose of the test that the College Board stuck by its guns and published the TRUTH! Except that another anomaly about the 2000-2001 test, the increase in the overall average score from 529 to 544, undermines that possibility.  As this paralleled an increase in the number of test takers from 274,296 to 279,586, we cannot chalk it up merely to a more selective group of test takers.  We thus must conclude it’s the result of intentionally re-centering or re-scaling the test in order to put rose colored glasses on students and teachers about the persistent and *permanent* race and sex differences which made this world and nation GREAT. But why?  What’s to be gained by conveying the FALSE impression that America’s scores are increasing when credible, solid, scientific international tests have PROVEN in spades that programs like NCLB have caused them to DECREASE, DRAMATICALLY? People and organizations who LIE with statistics like that can never be trusted.             To accurately reflect the unannounced, unexpected, unpublicized, unknown, unexplainable, unpredictable INCREASE in the "gender gap" in the midst of all the media hoopla about the "narrowing of the gender gap", we must add that to the above charts, in red, as follows:

 

 

 

 

 GRE vs. brain size per Professor Rushton