On Oct 18, 6:58 pm, "Nick" wrote:

I consider it self-evident that the people who design
IQ tests would be satisfied with such tests only if
they themselves could score well enough on them.

Let's suppose that Herr Doktor Professor Ubermensch
designed an IQ test for which he was disappointed with
his score. Would he be more likely to think that
1) "There must be something wrong with me!
I am less intelligent than I had thought." or
2) "There must be something wrong with this test!" ?

Historically, there has definitely been something (a lot, actually)
to what Nick says here. Aside from the sources he cites, another good
discussion of cultural/ethnic bias in judging "intelligence," by IQ
tests and other means, is "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephen Jay Gould
(W.W. Norton, 1981). This precedes "The Bell Curve" by several years,
so that book is not discussed, but I recall that Gould was severely
critical of "The Bell Curve" when it came out.