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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ned Joel Block; Gerald Dworkin |
| ISBN: | 0394490568 9780394490564 0394730879 9780394730875 |
| OCLC Number: | 1976724 |
| Description: | xiii, 557 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. IQ : The Lippmann-Terman debate -- The mental age of Americans ; The mystery of the "A" men ; The reliability of intelligence tests ; The abuse of the tests ; Tests of hereditary intelligence ; A future for the tests / Walter Lippmann -- The great conspiracy / Lewis M. Terman -- The great confusion / Walter Lippmann -- Letter to The New Republic, January 17, 1923 / Lewis M. Terman -- Letter to The New Republic, January 17, 1923 / Walter Lippmann -- Testing for competence rather than for "intelligence" / David C. McClelland -- Part II. Genetic component of IQ differences -- Race and intelligence / Richard C. Lewontin -- Race and the genetics of intelligence : a reply to Lewontin / Arthur R. Jensen -- Further remarks on race and the genetics of intelligence / Richard C. Lewontin -- Unknowns in the IQ equation / Sandra Scarr-Salapatek -- Limitations to genetic comparison of populations ; Educability and group differences / J.M. Thoday -- Behavior-genetic analysis and its biosocial consequences / Jerry Hirsch -- The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes / Richard C. Lewontin -- Science or superstition? A physical scientist looks at the IQ controversy / David Layzer -- Heredity, intelligence, politics, and psychology : I / Leon J. Kamin -- Mysteries of the meritocracy / Arthur S. Goldberger -- Part III. Social and political consequences -- The fallacy of Richard Herrnstein's IQ / Noam Chomsky -- Whatever happened to vaudeville? A reply to Professor Chomsky / Richard J. Herrnstein -- Comments on Herrnstein's response / Noam Chomsky -- Five myths about your IQ / Mary Jo Bane and Christopher Jencks -- Testing for order and control in the corporate liberal state / Clarence J. Karier -- Heredity, intelligence, politics, and psychology : II / Leon J. Kamin -- Genetics and educability : educational implications of the Jensen debate / Carl Bereiter -- Part IV. IQ, heritability, inequality -- IQ, heritability, and inequality / N.J. Block and Gerald Dworkin. |
| Responsibility: | edited by N.J. Block & Gerald Dworkin. |
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