The Pseudoscience of Arthur Jensen

I n my previous article on this subject I have discussed the differential social conditions that can, without difficulty, be seen as accounting for most or all of the average black/white IQ gap that Arthur Jensen has tried to explain with a “genetic hypothesis.” Nothing in that discussion was novel, nor even very arguable, as Jensen must be aware; he himself, as we saw, conducted a testing exercise during which he revealed more than half of that gap to be illusory even though he c...