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Research Article
Black Americans Reduce the Racial IQ Gap: Evidence From Standardization Samples
William T. Dickens 1 and James R. Flynn 2
  1 Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, and   2 Department of Political Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
 Address correspondence to James R. Flynn, Department of Political Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, e-mail: jim.flynn@stonebow.otago.ac.nz.
Copyright Copyright © 2006 Association for Psychological Science

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ABSTRACT—It is often asserted that Black Americans have made no IQ gains on White Americans. Until recently, there have been no adequate data to measure trends in Black IQ. We analyzed data from nine standardization samples for four major tests of cognitive ability. These data suggest that Blacks gained 4 to 7 IQ points on non-Hispanic Whites between 1972 and 2002. Gains have been fairly uniform across the entire range of Black cognitive ability.


(Received 9/30/05; Revision accepted 2/13/06; Final materials received 2/23/06)

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10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01802.x About DOI

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