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When researching my book I was told by experts that the intelligence genes which vary throughout the human population probably are linear. Consider President Obama who has a very high IQ but who also has parents who are genetically very different from each other. If intelligence genes worked in a non-additive complex way people with such genetically diverse parents would almost always be very unintelligent. We don't observe this.
Evidence?
Harvard Law Review
Counter-evidence: affirmative action.
In any case, it's interesting that Obama's SAT (or ACT) scores are sealed as are his college grades, AFAIK.
HLS students of any skin color have high IQs as measured by standardized tests. The school's 25th percentile LSAT score is 170, which is 97.5th percentile for the subset of college graduates who take the LSAT. 44% of HLS students are people of color.
When I see funny terms like "people of color" (or, say, "gun deaths"), I get suspicious. A little bit of digging, and...
Black students constitute 10-12% of HLS students. Most of the "people of color" are Asians.