FYI. - Doug Henwood ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The following are comments of the president of the ETS on misinterpretation and abuse of data sets by the authors of Bell Curve: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: Re: IQ, genetics, and statistics It is interesting that "The Bell Curve" has resulted in a discussion on IQ, when most of its conclusions are not based on IQ. The following is a quote from a response by Nancy Cole, president of ETS. "In [the Bell Curve] and in the publicity about it, data from some of ETS's own tests are misused to promote a position about inherited racial inferiority that is scientifically invalid and which is personally abhorrent to me. As president of ETS, I am particularly disturbed that the authors treat the SAT as if it were an IQ test, which it is clearly not, and then use the results as if they provided proof on inherited intelligence, which is by any standard bad science." "ETS ACCESS," Vol. 5, No. 9, October 27, 1994. --
