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- July 20, 2010 – 12:27 pm
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Can intelligence of human beings really be measured correctly by IQ tests? The debate goes on.
While a lot of experts the world over have laid a lot of emphasis on the importance of IQ tests in checking the overall capability and intelligence of a person, the fact remains that the actual measurement remains a fairly subjective matter.
True, there are tests that have been designed for testing the exact Intelligence Quotient of a person, whichever part of the world he or she hails from. These IQ tests can also be taken by people of varying educational backgrounds and race as they are pretty simple to understand. The fact remains, however, that the IQ tests can actually be different at different times for the same person. Why is this so?
It has been proven that a person who receives some kind of training in the expectations from an IQ test will definitely do better than a rookie attempt. So is it really a test of intelligence, or of the levels of preparation the person being tested has undergone?
Two people of arguably the same intelligence level when coming from different backgrounds would perform differently on these IQ tests. The tests themselves have been designed to check the levels of purely western requirements. The same person when brought up in a primarily developing country, say, Nigeria, would arguably score much lower in the same IQ test. This has been brought out by various scholars time and again, and there is fair amount of evidence to collaborate this.
It is no wonder then that eminent scholars like Dr James Watson have come up with strange sounding theories based on these IQ tests, that black people have less intelligence than their white counterparts. Of course being politically incorrect, more so in the present times of Barrack Obama, such statements have been met with the obvious result – social ostracism of the famous scientist. But is he really to blame?
Food for thought before you prescribe the next IQ test.
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- September 28, 2009 – 12:10 pm
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Like James Watson, who recently made racial comments on race and IQ, Charles Davenport of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, made the same mistake in 1929 when he stated that interracial marriage could be dangerous and that only people of Nordic descent had the intelligence to move society forward. But by 1930, Charles Davenport was forced to apologize because there was no scientific basis for his statements. His concern that the inferior Mediterranean and Alpine races will somehow dilute out the intelligence of the Nordics seems ridiculous to most, according to the Newsday News.
Now, like then, the argument for inherited racial differences remains surprisingly resilient. Davenport’s study of racial crossing was funded by a reclusive millionaire by the name of Wickliffe Draper. He funded a group of scientists who have gotten a lot of press for claiming that there is a scientific basis for white supremacy, particularly in the area of intelligence. He have money to the former president of the American Psychological Association who took the stand in the trial that led up to desegregation and stated that segregation was necessary due to different standards of intelligence. In the 1960s, the same group funded a man who suggested that money should be given to any low IQ minority individual who chose to be voluntarily sterilized. The current Pioneer fund director argues that science has proven that evolution has given black people large genitals but small brains.
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- June 29, 2009 – 10:15 am
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