The IQ debate expands in The Australian News when discussing the cultural biases in IQ testing. It was made worse when Harvard University former president Larry Summers touched off a controversy in 2005 when he stated there was a genetic reason why he was having difficulty recruiting women professors in math and physics. He said [...]
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The definition of what constitutes mental retardation is changing.
Historically, mental retardation, once called feeblemindedness, idiocy, and mental deficiency, was based strictly on the scientific result of the IQ test.Anyone scoring below 70 on the IQ test was known to be mentally retarded. According to Psychiatric Services, that definition is changing.In fact, even the name is [...]
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