At 8:46 AM -0700 8/27/03, Jean-Marc Perreault wrote:
Perhaps then, we should come up with a new name for those tests. One
could argue, from what Stephen has said, that intelligence is not at
all what is being measured. Rather, the test (to quote Stephen
"predict[s] specific kinds of performance in a particular kind of
environment".
So why not give up on the notion that they are tests of
"intelligence", and call them "Predictive tests of "school
achievement and, perhaps, later success in life as measured by
socio-economic status, occupation, and other such indicators, in an
urban, industrialized, Western and even white society"".
Long name, I grant you that... But much less room for debate, or is there?
Probably wouldn't sell as well, though.
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