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Originally Posted by sapiens
However, if there are group differences in IQ scores and those differences are related to important social outcomes, shouldn't someone investigate those group differences in order to equalize those social outcomes?
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Certainly, at least until "race" as a social category gives way to something more productive (as rb points out). This is exactly why the census continues to ask about "race," because of the social outcomes... and why every sociological study asks the same kinds of questions. Race as a proxy for so many other things...
The only question is, by asking people to continually "self-identify," are we creating a self-fulfilling prophecy by perpetuating the social acceptance of "race" as valid? I mean, let's say everyone did as I did
and checked the "Other" box under "race." Then the census, and every social scientist out there, would be forced to find something else--hopefully something more productive/accurate--to use for grouping people and studying social outcomes.