Measuring intelligence : facts and fallacies / David J. Bartholomew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartholomew, David J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence tests.

Physical Description:

xiv, 172 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Summary:

This book penetrates the thicket of controversy, ideology and prejudice surrounding the measurement of intelligence to provide a clear non-mathematical analysis of it. The testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history and whether intelligence exists and can be measured still remains unresolved. The debate about it has centered on the "nurture versus nature" controversy and especially on alleged racial differences and the heritability of intelligence.

Contents:

1 The great intelligence debate: science or ideology? 1

2 Origins 14

3 The end of IQ? 27

4 First steps to g 35

5 Second steps to g 42

6 Extracting g 55

7 Factor analysis or principal components analysis? 68

8 One intelligence or many? 74

9 The Bell Curve: facts, fallacies and speculations 85

10 What is g? 96

11 Are some groups more intelligent than others? 110

12 Is intelligence inherited? 126

13 Facts and fallacies 142.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-167) and index.

ISBN:

0521836190

0521544785

OCLC:

54543731

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