This analysis is quite poor since you aren’t accounting for race in the actual data. Since one fourth to one third of blacks are illiterate, and funding / education cannot increase IQ noticeably, it’s a poor theory that “structural racism” is causing this difference. I challenge you to find a single dataset in which those with subsaharan African ancestry aren’t less literate than those of Northern Europe ancestry. It hasn’t been found.
The correlation between percent black + Hispanic and illiteracy would be much higher and more insightful. Yes, low IQ whites often vote trump, but low IQ whites are as intelligent, or more so, than average blacks, so it isn’t a comparison that a socially conscious person should point out.
Your conclusion is a bit off topic. I specifically stated in the article that there are many factors influencing turnout and, yes, race is one of them. As I said, literacy only explains about 1/3 of turnout. African Americans and Latinos have lower literacy scores and therefore also lower turnout rates, but that doesn't mean there is any causal link here.
You could just as well prove that the poorest counties in the US have low literacy rates, and since more African Americans tend to be born into those poorer areas than white Americans, they are more likely to be poor and more likely to be illiterate. Again, it's hard to prove a causal link, but that argument at least makes more sense.
(One problem is that you are talking about IQ, but reading skills are fundamentally influenced by education standards. I never mentioned IQ)
The color of ones skin does not influence literacy. You are right, literacy rates in subsaharan Africa are lower, mainly because these countries lack the education infrastructure to prevent illiteracy (again, poverty!). In the US, many of the poorest counties are African-American counties in the deep south. And this is were countless researchers have indeed found a link to structural racism.
Lastly, I never drew the conclusion that African Americans are more intelligent than white Trump voters. I first and foremost discussed literacy rates and their influence on turnout, the so-called "turnout deserts" and in the 2nd half of the article, I talk about "political literacy". This is where our misunderstanding seems to be. Trump voters have proven to be much more "politically illiterate" (meaning they can't correctly identify which party is in power and they don't follow the news at all) than Harris voters. That has nothing to do with race.
Granted, the "So, yes, it was an open-book test, but it’s difficult to pass an open-book test if you can’t read properly"-phrase is baity it ( as there is no data that proves this assumption).
This analysis is quite poor since you aren’t accounting for race in the actual data. Since one fourth to one third of blacks are illiterate, and funding / education cannot increase IQ noticeably, it’s a poor theory that “structural racism” is causing this difference. I challenge you to find a single dataset in which those with subsaharan African ancestry aren’t less literate than those of Northern Europe ancestry. It hasn’t been found.
The correlation between percent black + Hispanic and illiteracy would be much higher and more insightful. Yes, low IQ whites often vote trump, but low IQ whites are as intelligent, or more so, than average blacks, so it isn’t a comparison that a socially conscious person should point out.
Your conclusion is a bit off topic. I specifically stated in the article that there are many factors influencing turnout and, yes, race is one of them. As I said, literacy only explains about 1/3 of turnout. African Americans and Latinos have lower literacy scores and therefore also lower turnout rates, but that doesn't mean there is any causal link here.
You could just as well prove that the poorest counties in the US have low literacy rates, and since more African Americans tend to be born into those poorer areas than white Americans, they are more likely to be poor and more likely to be illiterate. Again, it's hard to prove a causal link, but that argument at least makes more sense.
(One problem is that you are talking about IQ, but reading skills are fundamentally influenced by education standards. I never mentioned IQ)
The color of ones skin does not influence literacy. You are right, literacy rates in subsaharan Africa are lower, mainly because these countries lack the education infrastructure to prevent illiteracy (again, poverty!). In the US, many of the poorest counties are African-American counties in the deep south. And this is were countless researchers have indeed found a link to structural racism.
Lastly, I never drew the conclusion that African Americans are more intelligent than white Trump voters. I first and foremost discussed literacy rates and their influence on turnout, the so-called "turnout deserts" and in the 2nd half of the article, I talk about "political literacy". This is where our misunderstanding seems to be. Trump voters have proven to be much more "politically illiterate" (meaning they can't correctly identify which party is in power and they don't follow the news at all) than Harris voters. That has nothing to do with race.
Granted, the "So, yes, it was an open-book test, but it’s difficult to pass an open-book test if you can’t read properly"-phrase is baity it ( as there is no data that proves this assumption).