PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.1: James Mckeen Cattell, Anthropometry, Signify
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Galton believed that because people learn about the world through their senses, those with superior sensory abilities would be able to learn more about it. He argued, sensory abilities should be an indicator of a person"s intelligence. Anthropometrics (literally, the measurement of people ): referred to methods of measuring physical and mental variation in humans. One of galton"s colleagues, james mckeen cattell, took his tests to the united. States and began measuring the abilities of university students. This research revealed, however, that people"s abilities on different sensory tests were not correlated with each other, or only very weakly. For example, having exceptional eyesight seemed to signify little about whether one would have exceptional hearing. Clearly, this was a problem, because if two measures don"t correlate well with each other, then they can"t both be indicators of the same thing, in this case, intelligence.
