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...about the I.Q. itself? Dr. Benda says, "Early I.Q. testing and its modifications by Stanford, Wexler, Terman et all are all based on the studies of Binet and Simon at the end of the last century." Stanford? Could this be Stanford University, where Lewis Terman was when he developed the "Stanford-Binet"? Wexler? Could this be David Wechsler, developer of the Wechsler-Bellevue, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, and other modern tests? (Note, incidentally, that this Wechsler has not heard that the testing of adults is meaningless.) Reading that sentence, I thought for a moment that the entire piece...
Early I.Q. testing and its modifications by Stanford, Wexler, Terman et al are all based on the studies of Binet and Simon at the end of the last century. The original I.Q. testing technique was a careful attempt to replace the rather arbitrary methods of judging human potential by measurement on a sounder scientific scale. However Binet and Simon knew that their "measuring scale of intelligence," properly speaking, does not measure true intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, thus cannot be measured as linear surfaces but are rather a classification, "a hierarchy among diverse intelligences." They wrote: "intelligence, better...
There are striking parallels in history to this combination of oppressive policy and "science" to back it up. Several of Herrnstein's sources, Francis Galton and Lewis Terman, were in the 1920s eugenics movement, which led to 30 states passing laws against interracial marriage and for sterilization of 10,000 of the "defective" in 24 states. Herrnstein is aware of the inadequacy of his data and of the seriousness of the social policy he advocates. By publishing again in a popular news magazine, providing no new evidence to prove his case, and by calling for social policy whose application could...
Herrnstein first outlines the development of intelligence testing, often citing the works of Alfred Binet and Lewis Terman. He goes on to conclude using Arthur Jensen's data that 80 per cent of a person's I.Q. is inherited, while all other environmental factors determine only 20 per cent. Although it is difficult to conclusively repudiate his genetic data in the first 90 per cent of the article, many should be shocked by his appalling biases...
...article itself contains glaring clitist, racist, and sexist biases. He refers to the study Lewis Terman made between 1925 and 1959 that was published in five volumes entitled the Genetic Studies of Genius. Terman, fascinated by genius-types, examined over a long period a large group of people with I.Q.'s over 150 (genius category). Herrnstein evaluates the data on women accordingly...