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From: jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Bias on IQ tests
Message-ID: <2697@calmasd.GE.COM>
Date: 24 Mar 88 19:32:50 GMT
References: <3943@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <73600017@uiucdcsp>
Organization: G.E.- Calma R&D, San Diego, CA
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In article <73600017@uiucdcsp>, pax@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> Stephen Gould in 'The mismeasure of Man' explains why the concept 
                                                       ^- he thinks that
> of IQ is flawed in the first place.  Basicly there is no such thing.
                                      ^- you believe that  
> Given that, how can a test purport to measure it?

by purporting that both you and S. Gould are wrong, and that there is
in fact such a thing as IQ.

> (impartially or otherwise)?

I happen to admire and respect S.J.Gould - he would NEVER try to claim
that his opinions were true because they were his opinions.  He does
not claim that IQ doesn't exist - he tries to show evidence to that
effect; in an attempt to get the reader to believe, as he does, that
it does not exist.  Do you see the difference?


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