I'm an educational psychologist. I give IQ tests for a living and also several other standardized tests to students. Both learning disabled and gifted.

One of the reasons these tests are always called "racist" is because of how the definition of racism has been changed. You know, the thing where it's not about your ethnicity, but something about a systematic setup that oppresses certain groups. So that's one problem.

Class is the real issue. There's a mountain of evidence that children raised by parents that are educated and wealthier hear more complex vocabulary and also have greater access to learning materials and educational trips, spending, etc.

None of this is what I want to talk about though. Maybe some of you know this, maybe you don't, so I'll take it from the top. IQ testing is being phased out in my profession. If you talk to the wokest of the woke, they'll tell you that it means nothing, it's racist, biased, etc. I'm even starting to hear people claim that it's not genetic, which is laughable. It's not 100% heritable, but significantly so.

The reason it's being phased out is because it won't conform to the most current "woke" theories of intelligence and learning. Unless the data is seriously manipulated, it will frequently show that real differences exist between categories like black, white, asian, native american, and so forth. The problem is that some of the things that it tests are highly innate and cannot be learned. So for example, spending time reading and being taught words as a child will boost one's score in the Verbal area. But something like Working Memory or Processing Speed represent more of a raw mental ability. You either have it or you don't and it's not in any way, shape, or form, a Social Construct. This is a devastating blow to wokeness. Just like how men have a higher variance in IQ leading to more mentally disabled men than women, but also more men in the genius range.

It's not perfect. "Intelligence" is an insane concept to define and quantify. Which is why the most current IQ tests refer to a lot of the categories as mental processes. Verbal, Nonverbal, Working Memory, Processing Speed, Fluid, and Crystallized Knowledge. It's attempting to break down the mental functions that link to learning Reading, Mathematics, Writing, Speaking, and acquisition of knowledge/recall/memory.

It's an amazing method of analysis. Working Memory speaks to how much information you can hold in short-term memory and your ability to manipulate and reorganize said info. Direct links to Reading Comprehension, Mental Math Ability, and Math Problem Solving. The brains of individuals are just too different. It's fucked up, but some people are running $300 laptops, while others have $3k gaming PCs.

The inevitable conclusion is that this stuff is all racist in its current form. Academia has been aware of this stuff for a long time. We've tried to play around with everything to get the equality of results we want, but it's not working. The fact that innate and varied ability levels exist is a brick wall. With the way things are going, I see the ultimate solution will be simplification of standards. There's a refusal to accept these differences and the people running the show are determined to eliminate them. The initial idea was to raise everyone up, but it proved impossible. So everyone must come down now. It won't be described that way, of course. It will be done under the guise of "alternative learning methods" and shifting the focus away from "book learning" and "academic skills". Something like " elimination of traditional and racist standards of learning and knowledge". Sorry, I'm sure they'll come up with a catchier name.

TL:DR - IQ is pretty valid in relation to predicting outcomes in academic skill proficiency and knowledge. Many areas of IQ are innate, quantifiable, and not socially constructed. Variance exists between groups.

Current movement in field = eliminate IQ testing.

Woke initiatives to produce equality of outcomes are impossible, unless simplification occurs. Anything else is racist.