Recently, John Couey, a Florida convict, was sentenced to death despite having two low IQ test scores, highlighting the possibility that some mentally retarded individuals may be missing a key US Supreme Court opportunity handed down five years ago. In 2002, the US Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to give the death penalty [...]
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Charles Murray, champion of the IQ test and the author of the 1994 book, The Bell Curve, is now advocating getting rid of the SAT, quoting a 2001 study that showed the SAT contributed only 0.1% to the predictability of freshman grades. This proponent of IQ testing states that the SAT provides little information beyond [...]
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While IQ tests are used in everything from business hiring and promotion to children’s school placement, a new study out shows that IQ tests are often unreliable measures of intelligence. According to Stephen Murdoch, the author of IQ: The Brilliant Idea that Failed, the tests, which measure verbal, mathematical, spatial and other skills are often [...]
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