Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOST testmakers conceded that their own cultural backgrounds impose a distinct bias on their questions. Arguing that all U.S. employment and IQ tests reflect the culture of white, middle-class America, Negro Sociologist Adrian Dove, 33, a program analyst for the U.S. Budget Bureau, devised his own quiz. Wryly known as the "Soul Folk Chitlings Test," it is cast with a black, rather than a white, bias. Some of his 30 black imponderables prove extremely difficult for Whitey: 1) Whom did "Stagger Lee" kill (in the famous blues legend)? a) His mother, b) Frankie, c) Johnny, d) His girl friend...
...There was a six-year-old ghetto boy admitted to the hospital where I worked for treatment of rheumatic fever. We became aware that Jimmy was a disturbed youngster, and we did some psychological testing. Jimmy, in tests that are admittedly culture-bound, tested out at an IQ of 125. His mother was as you've described the poverty-stricken-dull and depressed. We all looked at Jimmy in helpless despair. We knew that in all likelihood, he would either become depressed and his IQ would gradually go down to a dull level, or he would use his brains...
...test scores are used to select candidates for admission and IQ scores are also disregarded. Reading and writing samples, school records and personal recommendations, "and a lot of intuiton" are taken into consideration, Ryerson explains. "We have kids who dropped out of high school. We have kids who, when they came, never thought they could go to college," he adds...
...intelligence, ability or achievement potential is not participation in a scientific debate at all. It means lifting in the public eye the status of studies otherwise disqualified and rejected by science." Interpreted one way, such studies apparently suggest that the U.S. Negro is inferior to the U.S. white. On IQ tests, he generally averages 15 to 20 points lower. The results of World War I alpha intelligence tests have frequently been cited as evidence of the Negro's mental inferiority, since the Negro soldier invariably ranked below the white soldier on a state-by-state basis. But the same...
...define the terms. Einstein once confessed to Anthropologist Ashley Montagu that in the Australian Aborigine's society, he would rightfully be regarded as an intellectual idiot who could neither track a wallaby nor throw a boomerang. As Anthropologist Stanley Garn has dryly noted, if the Aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. "It is possible that some of the behavioral differences between human groups may be genetically determined," says University of Michigan Anthropologist Ernst Goldschmidt. "These may include differences in intelligence, but such differences may equally be due to cultural determinants. The question...