otional and that the empirical evidence presented seemed to be manipulated on both ends. In order to make a final ruling on my response to the question originally posed, is there a racial difference in intelligence, I decided to do some further research. These outside sources seemed to put a lot of the previous statements into perspective and give a clearer all-around presentation of the material. These readings included: The Race Bomb: Skin Color, Prejudice and Intelligence by Ehrlich & Feldman (1969), The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence and the Future of America by Fraser (1995), The Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication and Explanation by Horgan (1999), The Fallacy of I.Q. by Senna (1973) and Race, Intelligence, and the Brain: The Errors and Omissions of the Revised Edition of S. J. Gould's The Mismeasure of Man (1996) Personality and Individual Differences by Rushton (1997). While our focus surrounds fact not faith, when all is said and done, it is impossible to escape the conclusion that some of the research on group differences in intelligence could possibly be motivated by a desire to affirm the superiority of one group over another. Factually however, as stated in The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence and the Future of America by Fraser, while Blacks on average do score lower on IQ tests than Whites (the average IQ for whites is 100, the average forBlacks is somewhat lower, ranging from 80 to 90) and despite the consistency in these basic findings, it is nonetheless clear that the variation within groups is much greater than the differences between them. In The Race Bomb: Skin Color, Prejudice and Intelligence by Ehrlich and Feldman, they state that they believe Blacks may be caught in a self-fulfilling prophecy – by us convincing black children, their parents and their teachers that they are innately, immutably inferior. Maybe society has “programmed” Blacks toperform in ...
