@cremieuxrecueil: Stereotype threat is a propose...

Stereotype threat is a proposed explanation for the Black-White IQ gap.

But is it real?🧵

In the original study, the scores for Blacks and Whites in conditions of stereotype threat and without that threat looked like this:

Most people read about stereotype threat and think it fully explains the Black-White gap in scores, as in this hypothetical model:

But look back at the first figure and you'll notice the words "Adjusted by SAT."

That's right: in its original study, stereotype threat was something *added on top of* the existing Black-White gap, not something that explains it.

The reality of the test was more like this:

Even though the correct interpretation of the first plot is figure C, most journal articles and many textbooks still provided the incorrect figure B interpretation as of 2019!

Oh, and another thing:

The whole thing fell prey to its own replication crisis and it's not really a thing.

To learn more about that, check out my latest article: cremieux.xyz/p/maybe-youre-…