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Downvoted for what looks like willful misunderstanding of the grandparent. (Will withdraw the downvote if it turns out to be a honest misunderstanding.)
The dispute concerns the causal origins of the so-called "IQ gap". The fact of the "IQ gap" isn't itself in dispute (or if it is, it is a different dispute than the one Yvain refers to), so the bet wouldn't settle anything, besides being in extremely poor taste. Racism and discrimination compete with genetic explanations to explain that fact, and the grandparent provides some detail on why settling the issue isn't trivial.
Nothing in my post was directed at the grandparent. It was direct at Johnicholas comment:
If he doesn't think race is a rigid enough concept for coming up with theories, surely he wouldn't mind betting against someone who used it explicitly to make predictions? If it helped people make predictions that were more accurate than his own, how could he maintain the claim that they are too fuzzy for inclusion in theories?