PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Stereotype Threat, Heritability, Snoop Dogg
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Iq test shows ur position of intelligence within ur society. How u differ in ur abilities, behavior and personality matters. There are many tests taken to predict the future performance of the person. The iq test has to be reliable or else it will be invalid testing. Stereotype threat can affect a person performance during a test. Graph: the data reveals from young age to adulthood; adult women r declining in their math performance and men r only going higher in their math performance. Graph: based on iq test that may be bias and may not predict things. The main point is the curves largely overlap but we see a difference favoring whites than blacks. These r averages and we cannot tell anything about anyone but we can only place ppl based on their scores in that graph. Ask yourself about group differences in intellectual performance .
