Measuring Intelligence: Facts and Fallacies

ISBN-13: 9780521836197 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 186 str.

David J. Bartholomew

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… commendable for its thoughtfulness and good judgment.' Intelligence 33

Spis treści

1. The great intelligence debate: science or ideology?; 2. Origins; 3. The end of IQ?; 4. First steps to g; 5. Second steps to g; 6. Extracting g; 7. Factor analysis or principal components analysis?; 8. One intelligence or many?; 9. The bell curve: facts, fallacies and speculations; 10. What is g?; 11. Are some groups more intelligent than others?; 12. Is intelligence inherited?; 13. Facts and fallacies.