intelligence tests that help sort all these people out, at least to some extent, this was the first
major use of testing to decide who lived and who died, as officers were a lot safer on the
battlefield, the tests themselves were given under horrendously bad conditions, and the
examiners seemed to lack commonsense, a lot of recruits simply had no idea what to do and in
several sessions most inductees scored zero! The examiners also came up with the quite
astounding conclusion from the testing that the average American adult’s intelligence was
equal to that of a thirteen-year-old!
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Intelligence testing enforced political and social prejudice, their results were used to argue that
Jews ought to be kept out of the united states because they were so intelligently inferior that
they would pollute the racial mix, and blacks ought not to be allowed to breed at all. And so
abuse and test bias controversies continued to plaque psychometrics.
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Measurement is fundamental to science and technology, science often advances in leaps and
bounds when measurement devices improve, psychometrics has long tried to develop ways to
gauge psychological qualities such as intelligence and more specific abilities, anxiety,
extroversion, emotional stability, compatibility, with a marriage partner, and so on. Their scores
are often given enormous weight, a single IQ measurement can take on a life of its own if
teachers and parents see it as definitive, it became a major issue in the 70s, when court cases
were launched to stop anyone from making important decisions based on IQ test scores, the
main criticism was and still is that current tests don’t really measure intelligence, whether
intelligence can be measured at all is still controversial, some say it cannot others say that IQ
tests are psychology’s greatest accomplishments.
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