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Elbedour, Salman; Hur, Yoon-Mi; Bouchard, Thomas J., Jr. – Intelligence, 1997
A battery of "g" loaded mental ability tests was administered to 274 Bedouin children and adolescents, full and half siblings from 106 families. Results demonstrate internal validity for the tests in this cultural context and support the idea that shared family environment is a strong determinant of sibling similarity for children in the…
Descriptors: Ability, Arabs, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Groups
Blum, Jeffrey M. – 1978
Pseudoscience, or the process of persuasion by establishing a pretense of scientific discovery, is examined in this book in an effort to dispel false notions about the validity of various measures of intelligence and the correlations of genetics to mental ability. The history and development of concepts related to hereditary intelligence and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Research, Environmental Influences, Ethnic Groups