Intellectual differences among Mexican Americans, Papagos and Whites, independent of g

Patterns of intellectual abilities for Mexican American and Native American Papago children were contrasted with those of White children, independent of overall differences in ability. Large differences in highly verbal skill s remained, with Whites consistently outscoring the other two groups. Nativ e Americans showed higher performance than Whites on spatial-visualization tasks but Mexican Americans exceeded Whites on no tasks. These race-related patterns of ability are nearly opposite those found in Black-White compari sons. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.