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- From: cedman@princeton.edu (Carl Edman)
- Subject: Re: Branding kids, IQ tests, smart vs dumb (Was: Re: Seminar Program)
- In-Reply-To: ren@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU's message of Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:49:53 GMT
- To: ren@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (Karen Prestemon)
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- In article <1993Jan23.084953.15061@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ren@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (Karen Prestemon) writes:
- The IQ test was developed as a placement test, and can't adequately
- measure intelligence. Nothing can, really, which is why its is so
- "imprecise." Basically, it tests knwoledge of white culture in
- America, which is more or less what the SAT does on the verbal half
- of the exam.
-
- Forgive me for picking only on this single point, but that statement
- does not seem to agree either with my experience or with observed fact
- for that matter.
-
- For the former, I personally had not spent more than a few weeks in
- north america in my entire life when I took the SATs. This did not
- appear to me to be an obstacle to getting a verbal score in the top
- few percentiles.
-
- For the latter, if indeed the verbal part of the SAT is culturally
- biased against eg. minorities and the quantitative part is not or at
- least less so (as you seem to be implying - correct me if I'm wrong),
- how do you explain the fact that the gap between average white and
- black SAT score is larger in the quantitative part than in the verbal
- part ?
-
- Carl Edman
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