Jensen's Last Stand.

Gould, Stephen Jay

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ERIC Number: EJ222718

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Publication Date: 1980-May

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Jensen's Last Stand.

Gould, Stephen Jay

New York Review of Books, v27 n7 p38-44 May 1 1980

Challenges Jensen's arguments (set forth in the book "Bias in Mental Testing") that intelligence tests are scientifically unbiased and that IQ and other mental tests measure something called "intelligence" by refuting Jensen's reading of the psychometric research literature. (EF)

Descriptors: Blacks, Book Reviews, Cluster Analysis, Factor Analysis, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Quotient, Intelligence Tests, Racial Differences, Test Bias, Whites

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Language: English

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