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IQ : a smart history of a failed idea / by Murdoch, Stephen,1968-(CARDINAL)482387;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index.The problem with testing -- The origins of testing -- The birth of modern intelligence tests -- America discovers intelligence tests -- Turning back the feebleminded -- The tests that changed the world -- Alpha and beta -- From segregation to sterilization : Carrie Buck's story -- Nazis and intelligence testing -- The eleven-plus in the United Kingdom -- Intelligence testing and the death penalty in the United States -- What do IQ tests really measure? -- Alternatives to IQ -- The SAT -- Black and white IQ -- Afterword."IQ scores have the power to determine the chances we have in life: the people we meet, the schools we attend, the jobs we get, the lives we live. Very few of us, however, understand what IQ tests and ratings really mean. In this book, Stephen Murdoch explains the turbulent history and controversial current uses of intelligence testing."--Jacket.
Subjects: Intelligence levels;
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The mind and mood of black America : 20th century thought / by Fullinwider, S. P.(CARDINAL)162928;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From hope to hatred -- Racial Christianity -- W. E. B. Du Bois and the crisis in intellectual leadership -- Marginal men -- The sociological imagination -- The renaissance in literature -- Another country -- The moral equivalent of blackness.
Subjects: Intelligence levels;
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Are we getting smarter? : rising IQ in the twenty-first century / by Flynn, James R.(James Robert),1934-2020.(CARDINAL)708994;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-304) and index.Opening windows -- IQ and intelligence -- Developing nations -- Death, memory, and politics -- Youth and age -- Race and gender -- The sociological imagination -- Progress and puzzles -- Appendix : I. IQ trends ; II. Capital cases and comparing the WAIS-III IQs of various nations ; III. Adult/child IQ trends and bright taxes/bonuses ; IV. Gender and Raven's ; V. Wonderful paper on causes of Raven's gains.
Subjects: Intelligence tests; Intelligence levels;
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Hive mind : how your nation's IQ matters so much more than your own / by Jones, Garett,author.(CARDINAL)552192;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.Introduction : the paradox of IQ -- Just a test score? -- A Da Vinci effect for nations -- James Flynn and the quest to raise global IQ -- Will the intelligent inherit the Earth? -- Smarter groups are more cooperative -- Patience and cooperation as ingredients for good politics -- Informed voters and the question of epistocracy -- The o-ring theory of teams -- The endless quest for substitutes and the economic benefits of immigration -- Poem and conclusion.
Subjects: Intelligence levels; Intelligence levels;
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Straight talk about mental tests by Jensen, Arthur Robert.(CARDINAL)145843;
Subjects: Intelligence levels.; Intelligence tests.; Nature and nurture.;
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Genetic diversity and human equality / by Dobzhansky, Theodosius,1900-1975.(CARDINAL)155802;
Bibliography: pages 117-123.1290L
Subjects: Intelligence levels.; Black people; Human population genetics.;
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You're smarter than you think : at least 500 fun ways to expand your own intelligence / by Moore, Linda Perigo.(CARDINAL)842385;
Bibliography: pages 221-238.Examines the nature of the intellect, recommends methods for improving the imagination, reasoning, and creative thinking, and discusses intelligence tests.
Subjects: Creative thinking.; Genius.; Intelligence levels.; Intelligence tests.; Success.;
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Black children/White children : competence, socialization, and social structure / by Blau, Zena Smith,1922-(CARDINAL)155148;
Bibliography: pages 254-272.Racism, social mobility, and education -- Race, social status, and social milieu -- Race, religion, and denominational membership -- Family structure and mother's extrafamilial roles -- Maternal values, investment in children, and intellectual competence -- Modes of control, socialization strategies, and intellectual competence -- Social sources of variation in socialization -- Sex of child and maternal socialization strategies -- Social antecedents of intellectual and scholastic competence: race and sex comparisons -- Social structure and socialization: sources of racial and sexual differences in competence.
Subjects: African Americans; Intelligence levels; Intellect;
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Who speaks for the child? by Silberberg, Norman E.(Norman Esau),1931-2007.; Silberberg, Margaret C.(Margaret Catherine),1927-1982.(CARDINAL)858395;
Bibliography: pages 207-209.
Subjects: Child development.; Intelligence levels.; Academic achievement.;
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The IQ argument: race, intelligence, and education / by Eysenck, H. J.(Hans Jurgen),1916-1997.(CARDINAL)147611;
Bibliography: pages 154-155.
Subjects: Intelligence levels; Ethnopsychology.; African Americans;
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