Lots of readers ask questions along this line in re that TNR piece:

Is there a methodological bias in the Valentino & Sears study cited by Schaller? (I haven’t read it.) I’m a white guy who grew up in a Southern state. If I checked “yes” to a survey question asking whether white schoolkids could do as well in math as Asian kids if the white kids would just work harder, would that make me a racist? Just wondering . . .

Me: I dunno.