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So you concede that John will score higher on the IQ test. Yet they are identical twins. So the test is not culturally biased. Both were raised in Black culture. One was raised in academic household.

But of course John is smarter. His mind is nimble from all the stimulation and reading. He will learn at a faster rate than Bill - all his life. That is what intelligence is really about. How fast you learn. Not what you know. At eighteen John knows much more than Bill. He knows how to read well. And he has read a lot. He can do algebra. He knows history. He can find Africa and Milwaukee on map. He had a higher rate of learning. Bill, sitting in front of the TV, might be able to name all characters in Suge Knight's latest trial or the lyrics to thirty five rap songs or how to roll a joint. But John knows many more facts and understands the world much better. He learned faster in his eighteen years than Bill did. He learned how to learn. He learns because he likes learning. Bill, not so much. John is more intelligent than Bill by any measure.

And even if the things Bill learned were equal in quantity to the things that John learned (they are not) they would not get him in college or sustain him through college.

On average, people that graduated from high school earn more than people that didn't. Same for college. And a high score on an IQ test is a good predictor of whether some one is intelligent enough to get a degree in physics. And getting a degree in physics or math or engineering is a leg up on earning more than someone without those degrees.

So, the average White earns more than the average Black because the average White is more intelligent than the average Black and because they are more educated than the average Black. Not because of "White privilege" or culturally biased IQ tests.