Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests are famous the world over for their so called ability to measure the intelligence levels of people. Are these tests really true to what people believe them to be?
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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 [...]
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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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