Word: iq
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...tests, the latter apparently cannibalized the former's acquired knowledge, which is believed to have been contained in RNA molecules that were coded during training. As late as the mid-'60s, chemicals such as glutamic acid were thought to increase alertness in humans and even to boost IQ scores. Alas, the latest word from the lab seems to be that an intelligence pill is not around the corner...
Watson cites a study he made of black West Indian students at an interracial secondary school in East Ham, a London working-class neighborhood. When the examination was correctly identified as an IQ test, the students scored an average of ten points lower than when the exercise was falsely described as an experiment to help plan curriculum. Watson, who is white, also found that scores typically climbed when the IQ test-identified as such-was given by his assistant, "a very black West Indian Negro...
...East Ham study got its inspiration from earlier work by an American psychologist, Irwin Katz, now at the Graduate Center of New York's City University. Katz devised a series of experiments to determine, among other things, the effect on IQ performance of being black in a white-dominated society. As in East Ham, Katz's black subjects did better when they were deceived into believing that their intelligence was not being tested-that is, when the test was described as a simple drill in eye-hand coordination. In fact, when they were freed of anxiety about intellectual...
Katz concluded that his subjects were thoroughly aware of the judgment of intellectual inferiority held by many white Americans. With little expectation of overruling this judgment, their motivation was low, and so were their scores. Hence when the IQ test was disguised as something else, the human ambition to do well-which has nothing to do with color-could take wing. And as long as their intelligence was not being evaluated, Psychologist Katz's subjects felt more challenged to succeed before a white examiner than before one of their own kind...
...sometimes not identified as such. "You'd hate to take a 'test.' " says Smith. "But it's not so bad to take a 'review.' " The 500 people a year who pass through the program progress at varying paces. A student with an average IQ and a seventh-grade education could be prepared with 20 to 25 hours of instruction. Then Smith has them take the General Educational Development exam, which is widely accepted as the equivalent of a high school diploma...