What do you think of the assertion "White people are more intelligent than black.....

'Intelligence' is a social construct rather than a biological one, so no, I don't agree with that assertion.

Black people on average come from poorer families, and live in poorer areas. Hence on average they will receive a poorer education, I'm not 100% but I think richer families care more if their kid skips school than a poorer family, who are more concerned with making ends meet. If you receive a poor education then you are going to be less intelligent in later life, I doubt it has much to do with your ethnicity.

What are the results like, out of interest, if you compare (for instance) the average IQs of black families from the top quintile of earnings with white families in the same quintile?

Or black families and white families both from the bottom quartile?

You could filter out the possible income differences if you compared like with like, couldn't you?

Oh, come off it.

You don't think that the word 'intelligence' describes something real and measurable that varies from person to person?

Strong old post.

I think some aspects of intelligence are 'real and measurable' (ie: biological) and others are not (ie: social). I couldn't be bothered to write a full response because this website has come to irritate me of late.

You can say that judging by the amount of whites in professional education/higher education/published works etc. that there is a predisposition to say that whites are smarter, but not smarter per se.

Just because there aren't as many blacks at university/published works etc. doesn't necessarily mean whites are smarter. It shows a correlation but nothing more. .