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Title: Bias in Mental Testing by Arthur Robert Jensen ISBN: 0-02-916430-3 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: January, 1980 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must have for psychologists
Comment: Jensen's book is the best intoduction to psychometric bias I have found. When the book was written, it was the tops in the field. Now it just needs a few chapters addendum on latent-trat methods to make it complete.
Rating: 5
Summary: Masterful Refutation of a Comfortable Old Canard
Comment: Jensen's "Bias in Mental Testing" has only one object: to examine and evaluate the common charge that the reason certain groups have lower average intelligence test scores is because the tests used to measure that intelligence are "culturally biased." It is not an effort to prove the "superiority" or "inferiority" of any racial group, nor is it in any meaningful sense "hereditarian," and its misuse by racialist groups, harped on by one reviewer who doesn't seem to have read the book himself, is completely irrelevant. In over 700 pages of scholarly and judicious writing, Jensen effectively demolishes the comfortable rationalization that "cultural" or other bias in the tests used offers even a partial explanation for group IQ testing differences---even demonstrating for example that minority test takers still score lower on average on tests that are specifically designed to be biased culturally in favor of minority test takers. No material in this study has been superseded or effectively challenged, and the claim made by another reviewer that it is "of historical interest only" would be ridiculous if it weren't so obviously deceitful. The book is in fact essential reading for those interested in issues of human intelligence and its testing, and should not be used as a polemical football either by "racists" or "anti-racists."
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Work
Comment: Still a very well respected work among psychologists despite what Mr. isreal (see below) wants you to believe. Don't take my word for it. Search the web for this and all works by A Jensen. Modern research has still yet to refute the well founded and scientifically supported claim that there are real differences in intelligence between races. Egalitarians are driven frantic by this but nothing is more important than truth.
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Title: Intelligence, Race, and Genetics: Conversations with Arthur R. Jensen by Arthur Robert Jensen, Frank Miele ISBN: 081334008X Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence) by Arthur R. Jensen ISBN: 0275961036 Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: 28 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $62.95 |
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Title: Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective (3rd Edition) by J. Philippe Rushton ISBN: 0965683613 Publisher: Charles Darwin Research Institute Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker ISBN: 0670031518 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It by Jon Entine, Earl Smith ISBN: 158648026X Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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