The IQ Controversy [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This is an excellent collection of papers dealing with the measurement of intelligence down through the years. The controversy which sparked the issues of the 1970s, the implicit racism of Jensen, for example, led to this collection of papers about the possibility of measuring intelligence. This all began with the work of Sir Francis Galton and his expectations of genetic improvement. Possibly the most impressive papers in this collection are the Walter Lippmann, Louis M. Terman arguments. These papers take up the first 50 pages of the book. The intellectual newsman, Lippmann, does a first rate job in questioning the entire construct of intelligence and points clearly to the absurd biologism of the dangerous construct of IQ. There are pieces by Kamin, Chomsky, Jensen and McClelland among others. Certainly this is the best summary to its date. However, the editors have not seen fit to question the motives of the psychologists who led the movement. It is Gould, in his Mismeasure..., who more pointedly attacks those who were beguiled by their own assumptions.

The IQ Controversy, Used [Paperback]