Genes, Brains, and Human Potential The Science and Ideology of Intelligence
68 PRETEND GENES chapter 3), correlations between IQ and SNPs in GCTA studies are self- fulfi lling (fi gure 2.4). As an illustr ...
PRETEND GENES 69 assumptions, estimates are “guaranteed to be biased.” Th ey conclude that “results obtained using GCTA, and the ...
70 PRETEND GENES phenylalanine from the diet). Likewise, a heritability of 0 does not mean that genes are not involved in the de ...
PRETEND GENES 71 Fi nally, remember that all this eff ort is expended on the basis of little (if any) agreed-on theory of human ...
3. PRETEND INTELLIGENCE SORTING PEOPLE OUT M ost people in developed countries have prob ably taken an intelli- gence test at so ...
PRETEND INTELLIGENCE 73 In meeting that prob lem, the idea of IQ as a scientifi c mea sure of mental power, refl ecting biologic ...
74 PRETEND INTELLIGENCE course huff and puff that this is not true and insist that they are mea sur- ing impor tant cognitive di ...
PRETEND INTELLIGENCE 75 indication of superior strains or races.” But, he wondered, how do we mea sure such ability when we do n ...
76 PRETEND INTELLIGENCE ALFRED BINET’S TEST It needs to be stressed that the motives behind the mea sure ment of intel- ligence ...
PRETEND INTELLIGENCE 77 On this basis, Binet and Simon produced their fi rst “Metrical Scale of Intelligence” in 1905. It contai ...
78 PRETEND INTELLIGENCE RETARDATION IN WHAT? From a purely practical viewpoint, Binet’s scale appeared to be a brilliant success ...
PRETEND INTELLIGENCE 79 test into En glish in 1910. Goddard was director of the Vineland Training School for Feebleminded Boys a ...
80 PRETEND INTELLIGENCE par tic u lar social classes. But adding up the results into scores made dif- ferences look scientifi c ...
PRETEND INTELLIGENCE 81 you tell me, who was Genghis Khan?” “What is the boiling point of water?” and so on). But others include ...
82 PRETEND INTELLIGENCE score patterns are real intelligence and not artifacts of test construction and people’s experience. In ...
PRETEND INTELLIGENCE 83 Table 3.1 shows some of Spearman’s early results, taken from twenty- two boys in a preparatory school. H ...
84 PRETEND INTELLIGENCE intelligence, and so on. Th e fallacy is that of assuming that such correla- tions are describing the re ...
PRETEND INTELLIGENCE 85 to examine IQ, states that “the mea sure ment of intelligence— which has been done primarily by IQ tests ...
86 PRETEND INTELLIGENCE between IQ and occupational level (and therefore, income) is also self- fulfi lling. Again, the mea sure ...
PRETEND INTELLIGENCE 87 Th e approach has been much admired in some quarters; indeed, it is inventive. However, it has also been ...
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