LSATs and verbal reasoning tests are very obviously culturally informed. Even so - questions about baseball games are very much not something you'll see in an IQ test.
But it's not a simple issue. Tests like Raven's Progressive Matrices looks like they should be culture-free but in fact they're based on assumptions, contexts, and operations that are taught implicitly in basic math classes in the West.
If you don't have that education, you're going to find it hard to understand the test.
Other culture have different ideas about what intelligence looks like and how it's expressed. If you threw equivalent non-Western challenges at a supposedly smart Western kid it's not obvious how well they'd do.
totally agree with this post, I used a simple example where many more complicated ones exist.
The problem is how do you disentangle Differential Item/Test Function being from cultural purposes as compared to 'we expect this group to perform worse'.
The larger point is that culture, intelligence, and measures of culture developed in a particular culture are difficult to disambiguate.
But it's not a simple issue. Tests like Raven's Progressive Matrices looks like they should be culture-free but in fact they're based on assumptions, contexts, and operations that are taught implicitly in basic math classes in the West.
If you don't have that education, you're going to find it hard to understand the test.
Other culture have different ideas about what intelligence looks like and how it's expressed. If you threw equivalent non-Western challenges at a supposedly smart Western kid it's not obvious how well they'd do.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/intelligence