Mental ability of the native races of Alaska

Abstract

The average IQ's on the Stanford-Binet test for three native races of children in Alaska—Eskimo, Aleut, and Indian—are 73.67, 80.27, and 78.88; and on the Goodenough scale for measuring intelligence by drawings the average IQ's are 89.56, 93.29, and 91.55. There is a tendency for the IQ on both of these tests "to increase progressively with additional admixture of white blood." The mental ability of these racial groups seems to rank above full-blood American Indians and southern negroes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)