PSYC 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Level Of Measurement, Random Assignment, Face Validity
21 Feb 2013
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11 jan 2013 intelligence testing is seen as imperialistic to discriminate against people and to hold the advantaged group in place. arguments are made that there is bias is in the tests. Mcintosh thinks there are all sorts of problems with the iq tests. Slide 2 these are points made by mcintosh lots of iq tests are collections of tests- vocab, current affairs, block test. and were designed for pragmatic purpose. so why should we take them seriously. What we will see is that the results tend to agree with each other. There is never any negative correlation between mental tests (this is called the positive manifold- correlations are positive and high). internal validity is good. Slide 3 influenced by darwin. introduced the idea of hereditary intelligence. Galton says there is no equality of people in terms of their ability and intelligence. Use twins to test the effect of environmental effects.
