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Subject: Re[2]: How I perceive psychometrics?
From: feralves
Date: 99/03/31 10:51
Dear Paul Brandon, Michael Silvester and all colleagues
I am agree with Michael when he asserts that psycometrics assumes deficits
instead differences.
And for me this is a major issue in interpreting or when we give to someone
information based on psychometrics. Even if the great majority of person who
work within a psychometric view do not point deficits to individuals, the social
interpretation, the social consctruction of those data is mainly in that sense
of deficit. What is missing probably to most psychometricians is an awereness
that when they do psychometrics they are doing and practising a particular view
of human being. This view could be summarized in this way: "personal,
intelectual, or afective caracterisitcs of individuals exist in some quantity;
then some individuals are more able, others are more unable in certain traits".
This view could be not sensible to the views of most psychometricians. But I
tend to believe that it is in this sense that it is constructed.
Jose Ferreira-Alves
Department of Psychology
University of Minho
Campus de Gualtar
4700 Braga
Portugal
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Subject: Re: How I perceive psychometrics?
From: Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Mensageiro
Date: 99/03/30 23:28
At 12:59 PM -0500 3/30/99, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>It is the quintessential Eurocentric scale.
>The data is usually based on norms taken fron the white population.
Of course it is!
The tests were written explicitly to be applied to white populations.
>(why not the Chinese-since they are the majority on the planet?)
No reason the tests couldn't be normed for Han, _if_ someone were
interested in testing that specific population. Of course:
1. Chinese-Americans seem to do quite well on the "European"
normed test.
2. I suspect (someone in psychometrics might confirm this) that
current renorming is done on samples representative of the population
(e.g., the United States) to be assessed.
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>The measured skills have more to do with Eurocentric academic type of
>activtity.
No question. If you want to assess different skills, write a different test.
>It assumes deficits instead of differences.
What (if anything) does this mean?
* PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
* Psychology Department 507-389-6217 *
* "The University formerly known as Mankato State" *
* http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html *
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From: feralves at Institutos
Date: 3/31/99 10:51AM
To: Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Mensageiro
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To: 1 Michael Sylvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Mensageiro
Subject: Re[2]: How I perceive psychometrics?
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