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The Bell Curve

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September 20, 2014

 

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The bell curve begins with a brief description of the history of intelligence theory and recent developments in intelligence thought and testing, through the eyes of the authors. There are six important assumptions that the authors build much of the Bell Curve case upon. These six assumptions are theories that regard the validity of "classical" cognitive testing techniques...
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These six assumptions are theories that regard the validity of "classical" cognitive testing techniques. These assumptions include: (1) There is such a difference as a general factor of cognitive ability on which human beings differ; (2) All standardized test of academic aptitude or achievement measure this general factor to some degree, but IQ tests expressly designed for that purpose measure it most accurately; (3) IQ scores match, to a first degree, whatever it is that people mean when they use the word intelligent, or smart in ordinary language; (4) IQ scores are stable, although not perfectly so, over much of a persons life; (5) Properly administered IQ tests are not demonstrably biased against social, economic, ethnic, or racial groups; and (6) Cognitive ability is substantially heritable, apparently no less than 40 percent and no more than 80 percent...
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