Straight Talk about Mental TestsThis book is for those of the general public who want to learn more about mental testing and its controversies. It presupposes no background in the specialized terminologies or mathematical underpinnings of psychometrics, statistics, or quantitative genetics that make most of the serious literature on the "IQ controversy" so inaccessible to the educated public who are not professionals in the field of mental measurement. |
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Contents
THE WHAT HOW AND WHY OF MENTAL TESTS | 1 |
THE STRUcture of MenTAL ABILITIES | 52 |
THE INHERitance of MeNTAL ABILITY | 74 |
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| Title | Straight Talk about Mental Tests |
| Author | Arthur Robert Jensen |
| Publisher | Free Press, 1981 |
| ISBN | 0029164400, 9780029164402 |
| Length | 269 pages |
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