Angela
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The only kind of "intelligence testing" that should be used is the kind done by educational psychologists in schools, i.e. one to one, taking a couple of hours, measuring things like digit recall, visual spatial reasoning, and on and on. The reason "paper and pen" or now, computer testing is used is because the former is impractical on the scale which would be necessary.
As for your British school results example, I think what happens with immigration is that if there are controls in place the people who migrate are often among the best and brightest from their home countries. That's the case here with Indian immigration, for example, where their educational achievements and financial success are higher than the norm for "white" Americans. The same is true with Jamaicans, who do much better than African-Americans. However, that says nothing about the intellectual superiority of Indians as a whole, as all the immigrants are from higher castes and arrive with a certain level of education. Mexican Americans score much lower, but we get huge numbers of very poor, unskilled people from Mexico as there are no controls, most of them arriving illegally.
As for your British school results example, I think what happens with immigration is that if there are controls in place the people who migrate are often among the best and brightest from their home countries. That's the case here with Indian immigration, for example, where their educational achievements and financial success are higher than the norm for "white" Americans. The same is true with Jamaicans, who do much better than African-Americans. However, that says nothing about the intellectual superiority of Indians as a whole, as all the immigrants are from higher castes and arrive with a certain level of education. Mexican Americans score much lower, but we get huge numbers of very poor, unskilled people from Mexico as there are no controls, most of them arriving illegally.