Questions about the nature of intelligence and intelligence testing have sparked increasing controversy during the past two decades. The widely held view that intelligence is measureable, and both genetic endowment and environment are key determinants of intelligence, first came under sharp attack during the decade of the 1960s. It was asserted that we do not know what intelligence is, that we do not know how to measure intelligence, and that IQ tests are biased against both minorities and the poor. To determine current ...
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Questions about the nature of intelligence and intelligence testing have sparked increasing controversy during the past two decades. The widely held view that intelligence is measureable, and both genetic endowment and environment are key determinants of intelligence, first came under sharp attack during the decade of the 1960s. It was asserted that we do not know what intelligence is, that we do not know how to measure intelligence, and that IQ tests are biased against both minorities and the poor. To determine current opinions among the relevant scientific communities on these issues, the authors used survey research to sample a broad group of experts in educational and developmental psychology as well as those whose specific expertise is intelligence testing. They found that, despite the common understanding to the contrary, most experts continue to believe that intelligence can be measured and that genetic endowment plays an important role in IQ. The central question addressed in this book is why expert opinion and public views toward intelligence and its measurement are so widely divergent. The authors conclude that the public's view of the IQ controversy has been shaped by inaccurate media coverage; and, more importantly, by changes in the nature of American liberalism as well as the key role of civil rights issues in American life. The increasing influence of new strategic elites in the United States, and the changing role of the mass media, have profoundly affected the character of scientific information communicated to the general public and how it is communicated.
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Like New. Size: 9x5x0; Unread and unopened! 1990 First paperback reprint. Questions about the nature of intelligence and intelligence testing have sparked increasing controversy during the past two decades. The widely held view that intelligence is measurable, and that both genetic endowment and environment are key determinants of intelligence, first came under sharp attack during the decade of the 1960s. It was asserted that we do not know what intelligence is, that we do not know how to measure intelligence, and that IQ tests are biased against both minorities and the poor. To determine current opinions among the relevant scientific communities on these issues, the authors used survey research to sample a broad group of experts in educational and developmental psychology as well as those whose specific expertise is intelligence testing. They found that, despite the common understanding to the contrary, most experts continue to believe that intelligence can be measured and that genetic endowment plays an important role in IQ. The central question addressed in this book is why expert opinion and public views toward intelligence and its measurement are so widely divergent. The authors conclude that the public's view of the IQ controversy has been shaped by inaccurate media coverage; and, more importantly, by changes in the nature of American liberalism as well as the key role of civil rights issues in American life. The Increasing influence of new strategic elites In the United States, and the changing role of the mass media, have profoundly affected the character of scientific information communicated to the general public and how it is communicated. About the Authors, Mark Snyderman is a law clerk for the Honorable Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the ninth circut. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Stanley Rothman is Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of Government at Smith College, and director of its Center for the Study of Social and Political Change. He is the co-author of The Media Elite.
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As New in As New jacket. Book The authors explore the correlation of accepted understandings of IQ, the measurement of IQ, the perceived bias that is built in to such testing with the rise and influence of liberal ideas and the increasingly liberal media. Despite evidence to the contrary, attention is drawn to the prevailing "understanding" that IQ cannot be measured nor is there any connection between IQ and genetics. Book is in excellent condition, dj is encased in acid free book protector; 323 pgs including Preface, acknowledgements, appendices A-F, index Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
