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The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender and Inequalityreviewed by Lloyd G. Humphreys — 1992 Title: The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender and Inequality Author(s): Elaine Mensh, Harry Mensh Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale ISBN: 0809316668, Pages: 214, Year: 1991 Search for book at Amazon.com This book is made up of opinions of the present authors and of the authors of their references. Quantitative data are almost entirely absent. When data are presented, they are likely to be poor, for example, those of Rosenthal and Jacobsen.1 The pejorative term pseudoscience is used frequently and dogmatically to describe testing, and the principal justification offered is that psychological constructs cannot be measured.
The opinions in the book are also highly one-sided. References to scientific journals or to books by qualified scientists are few in number. For the most part, the authors refer to newspapers, journals of opinion, and books of opinion by persons who are typically ill-informed concerning test theory and the many correlates of scores on intelligence tests.
The book does have the appearance of scholarship in the form of almost twenty-five pages of footnotes, appearing inconveniently in the back, and twenty pages of references, but these do... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Lloyd Humphreys
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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