{"id":70167,"date":"2015-06-30T07:10:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70167"},"modified":"2015-06-30T07:10:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:10:22","slug":"measuring-puerto-rican-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70167","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Puerto Rican Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico&#8217;s population, by and large, does not have the cognitive power to prosper. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/isteve.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/puerto-rico-and-iq-same-as-it-ever-was.html\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: Since then, of course, we&#8217;ve seen how wrong the 1936 psychometricians were, as Puerto Ricans have risen high in the ranks of accomplishment in America, such as composing, writing, and choreographing West Side Story.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait, you&#8217;re telling me West Side Story is by gay Jews? Why wasn&#8217;t I informed?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it turns out that this <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o7pVjl4Rrtc&#038;t=1m56s\">video clip<\/a> sums up how much has changed over the last 78 years.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that Puerto Ricans in America haven&#8217;t made any progress over the many generations. Malloy looks at 45 cognitive studies of Puerto Ricans in America, tosses 15 for methodological problems, and concludes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe median of 30 studies gives us an IQ of 84.7 for Puerto Rican Americans.<br \/>\nThe current average appears to be somewhat higher. The median IQ of 19 samples from the 1930s-1970s is 83.7. The median IQ of 14 samples from the 1980s-2000s is 87.4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico&#8217;s population, by and large, does not have the cognitive power to prosper. Steve Sailer writes: Since then, of course, we&#8217;ve seen how wrong the 1936 psychometricians were, as Puerto Ricans have risen high in the ranks of accomplishment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=70167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29582,26967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iq","category-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70168,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70167\/revisions\/70168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}