... factors, rather than genetic make-up, account for African American's lower scores on intelligence quotient (IQ) tests. To better understand how race and IQ cause controversy in the United States, it is beneficial to trace the history of the influence of the IQ test in America. General intelligence and IQ tests have often been presented as having a racist element. Since slavery, it is assumed ... and put into leadership positions" (Lemann 115). Galton's thought's have had an effect on the decisions of other voices in society, including the creators of IQ test. (Heredity 1). In 1905, a Fre...

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... expertise, some with musical genius, some with good vocabularies, etc., etc. An IQ test, therefore, should not be considered a measure of a person's intelligence. Rather, it is just a measure of the person's IQ. Although there has not been any correlation between race and intelligence, there have ... world have different cognitive abilities. For example, East Asians, such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, typically obtain higher scores on intelligence test and achievement tests that white Americans. The more complicated and greater comparison can be made between African Americans and white ...

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... Matrices. Negro and white children were used in this study and they achieved similar scores on the Stanford-Binet; however, the Negro group scored more than ten IQ points lower on the Progressive Matrices. Apparently, the latter test would have penalized the Negro group had it been a screening device in education or for a job interview. Conversely, Garrett (1947) proposes that the higher ... argument is that most of the item content in current intelligence tests is unfamiliar to the culturally deprived. Jensen (1966) presents the proposition that the verbal nature of IQ tests could acco...

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... three aspects affects their intelligence, then we may apply those rules to our artificial intellectual agents. II. Human INTELLIGENCE As well known as IQ tests, nearly everybody has heard about it and many even have taken the tests. IQ tests are feasible because of the following assumption. It is possible to ask people to solve a variety of intellectual problems and to use ... of intelligence. The choice of the problems to be included in any measure of intelligence is not a critical issue. Many scientists have devoted their effort to IQ test. And they draw these conclusions after millio...

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