When I first heard about this stuff 20 years ago, it was being presented as "The differences between groups A and B go away when stereotype threat is removed" which is not what the original paper says. The original paper claims that whatever difference there is between groups A and B, it will be larger when measured under the condition of stereotype threat which I guess is plausible but much less interesting.
Part of the context of that time was that _The Bell Curve_ had been published fairly recently and there was great desire to disprove it and anyone doing that could count on lots of attention and speaking fees. So the grift was to present stereotype threat as this grand solution that could resolve all racial differences.
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When I first heard about this stuff 20 years ago, it was being presented as "The differences between groups A and B go away when stereotype threat is removed" which is not what the original paper says. The original paper claims that whatever difference there is between groups A and B, it will be larger when measured under the condition of stereotype threat which I guess is plausible but much less interesting.
Part of the context of that time was that _The Bell Curve_ had been published fairly recently and there was great desire to disprove it and anyone doing that could count on lots of attention and speaking fees. So the grift was to present stereotype threat as this grand solution that could resolve all racial differences.