David J. Bartholomew

Measuring Intelligence (eBook, PDF)

Facts and Fallacies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511207174
• Artikelnr.: 38206168

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.