There's a lot to debunk about supposed IQ differences between races. Consider a related scenario: the differential performance between men & women on math tasks. When women's attention is brought to gender gaps, they perform more poorly on tasks compared to controls 
Again, there are several layers of bullshit when it comes to "race gaps in IQ." Stereotype threat is just one piece. And when is stereotype threat activated for Black students? At every level of education. "You're Black. You're different. You won't do as well."
When I worked in public schools, I had very young Black children tell me they weren't allowed to speak "their language" at school. This is just one example of a constant stereotypical monitoring of Black children than can have snowballing effects on performance
Whenever I'd come into a new classroom, I'd meet Black kids who seemed to cringe when they told me their names, fearing I'd react poorly/mispronounce/etc. Imagine these same kiddos having to do an IQ test for a stranger. They know what many white people are thinking
Black kids *know*, often intuitively, that they are being judged as "less than." This isn't the only thing that's going on w/ IQ tests, but it is important for people to recognize. Just knowledge of judgment can correlate w/ decreased performance.
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