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I think one of the explanations I once heard is that we have a lot of things locked up in our genetics and the environment we're born in (access to clean water, shelter, environmental like heat or extreme cold etc) is critical to unlocking higher intelligence.
Given that races themselves are an evolutionary trait to the environment they are in, it isn't that crazy to believe there is a difference in Intelligence based off race but the question is how much of that can be mitigated by environment as I doubt them growing up in leftist shitholes like Baltimore or totalitarian places like North Korea assist with this.
I bet the starving north Koreans are still smarter than the well fed blacks. whatever the difference that can be 'unlocked' by better diet and environments clearly isn't that much, maybe bump up iq by 5 points, otherwise the blacks adopted by whites would have similar test results to whites and asians instead of only slightly better than other blacks.
You're anchoring incorrectly.
Full nutrition allows your potential to be realized, but it doesn't raise the ceiling.
Starving in early developmental phases is catastrophic to mental and physical growth.
So if the broad Black cap is 110, that explains africas failure, nobody was well fed enough to reach even that bar.
If starvation drops you 35 points, eliminating starvation still the most leverage option to raise IQ. Even if it'd never going to push any black past 110.