David BartholomewCambridge University Press, 8/26/2004EAN 9780521544788, ISBN10: 0521544785Paperback, 186 pages, 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.4 cmLanguage: EnglishThe testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history. Claims that it is a pseudo-science or a weapon of ideological warfare have been commonplace and there is not even a consensus as to whether intelligence exists and, if it does, whether it can be measured. As a result the debate about it has centred on the nurture versus nature controversy and especially on alleged racial differences and the heritability of intelligence - all of which have major policy implications. This book aims to penetrate the mists of controversy, ideology and prejudice by providing a clear non-mathematical framework for the definition and measurement of intelligence derived from modern factor analysis. Building on this framework and drawing on everyday ideas the author address key controversies in a clear and accessible style and explores some of the claims made by well known writers in the field such as Stephen Jay Gould and Michael Howe.1. The great intelligence debatescience or ideology?2. Origins3. The end of IQ?4. First steps to g5. Second steps to g6. Extracting g7. Factor analysis or principal components analysis?8. One intelligence or many?9. The bell curvefacts, fallacies and speculations10. What is g?11. Are some groups more intelligent than others?12. Is intelligence inherited?13. Facts and fallacies.
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