Measuring Intelligence - Bartholomew, David J.
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Provides new framework for measuring intelligence and addresses key controversies in the field.
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The testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history. Claims that it is a pseudo-science or a weapon of ideological warfare have been commonplace and there is not even a consensus as to whether intelligence exists and, if it does, whether it can be measured. As a result the debate about it has centred on the nurture versus nature controversy and especially on alleged racial differences and the heritability of intelligence - all of…mehr

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Provides new framework for measuring intelligence and addresses key controversies in the field.

Main description
The testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history. Claims that it is a pseudo-science or a weapon of ideological warfare have been commonplace and there is not even a consensus as to whether intelligence exists and, if it does, whether it can be measured. As a result the debate about it has centred on the nurture versus nature controversy and especially on alleged racial differences and the heritability of intelligence - all of which have major policy implications. This book aims to penetrate the mists of controversy, ideology and prejudice by providing a clear non-mathematical framework for the definition and measurement of intelligence derived from modern factor analysis. Building on this framework and drawing on everyday ideas the author address key controversies in a clear and accessible style and explores some of the claims made by well known writers in the field such as Stephen Jay Gould and Michael Howe.

Table of contents:
1. The great intelligence debate: science or ideology(?)33;; 2. Origins; 3. The end of IQ(?)33;; 4. First steps to g; 5. Second steps to g; 6. Extracting g; 7. Factor analysis or principal components analysis(?)33;; 8. One intelligence or many(?)33;; 9. The bell curve: facts, fallacies and speculations; 10. What is g(?)33;; 11. Are some groups more intelligent than others(?)33;; 12. Is intelligence inherited(?)33;; 13. Facts and fallacies.
Autorenporträt
David J. Bartholomew is Emeritus Professor of Statistics, London School of Economics, Fellow of the British Academy and a former president of the Royal Statistical Society. He is a member of the editorial board of various journals and has published numerous books and journal articles in the fields of statistics and social measurement.