Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: milt%odin.corp.sgi.com@sgi.COM (Milton Tinkoff) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: IQ tests (Was Re: sexist space) Message-ID: <1991Jan18.174824.21081@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 18 Jan 91 20:54:41 GMT References: <11119@helios.TAMU.EDU> <664152739@grad17.cs.duke.edu> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 18 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: blanche.ics.uci.edu In article <664152739@grad17.cs.duke.edu> gazit@cs.duke.EDU (Hillel Gazit) writes: >In article ag1v+@andrew.cmu.EDU ("Andrea B. Gansley-Ortiz") writes: > >>A couple years ago a black man redid the standard IQ test in such a >>way that it centered on a black community's knowledge. The results >>were that blacks scored above average while whites/other minorities >>did not score as well. I've _heard_ of this but I'm a bit confused. Exactly how is an IQ test racially biased? I thought typical questions were of the "What is the next number in this sequence?" or "Square is to circle as cube is to ?" variety. Show me some racially biased questions and then I'll start believing. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Milt Tinkoff | "The average man is a Silicon Graphics Inc. | stupid man." milt@waynes-world.esd.sgi.com | -Ed Mao