Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined LifeUniversity of California Press, 1 janv. 1994 - 378 pages This book is about how our addiction to testing influences both society and ourselves as socially defined persons. The analysis focuses on tests of people, particularly tests in schools, intelligence tests, vocational interest tests, lie detection, integrity tests, and drug tests. Diagnostic psychiatric tests and medical tests are included only tangentially. A good deal of the descriptive material will be familiar to readers from their personal experience as takers and/or givers of tests. But testing, as with much of ordinary life, has implications that we seldom pause to ponder and often do not even notice. My aim is to uncover in the everyday operation of testing a series of well-concealed and mostly unintended consequences that exercise far deeper and more pervasive influence in social life than is commonly recognized. |
Table des matières
of Authenticity Testing | 23 |
No Sanctuary | 92 |
Testing and the War on Drugs | 121 |
From Drug Control to Mind Control | 151 |
7 | 185 |
Artificial Intelligence | 249 |
Man the Measured | 284 |
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