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from Section 6 - Demographic Group Differences
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 October 2020
This is the final installment in a trilogy of chapters about the potential causes of average differences in IQ scores across racial and ethnic groups. Chapter 28 presented evidence that the differences in score averages are unlikely to be entirely environmental in origin. Chapter 29 discussed the possibility of X-factors that could operate on a single racial group while leaving another group’s IQ scores untouched. The conclusion was that commonly proposed X-factors do not meet the necessary requirements to lower IQ and make average differences in intelligence entirely environmental. This chapter discusses one final proposed X-factor that is popular among psychologists, but which has had empirical difficulties in recent years that severely undermine its ability to explain average score differences. The proposed X-factor is called stereotype threat.
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