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Human intelligence and medical illness : assessing the Flynn effect
Abstract
As critics will note, psychometric tests are deeply flawed. Person-to-person differences in performance on a psychometric test are not informative about many things of great interest. An intelligence quotient (IQ) cannot characterize creativity or w- dom or artistic ability or other forms of specialized knowledge.
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An IQ test is simply an effort to assess an aptitude for success in the modern world, and individual scores do a mediocre job of predicting individual successes. In the early days of psychology, tests of intelligence were cobbled together with little thought as to validity; instead, the socially powerful sought to validate their power and the prominent to rationalize their success. In the early days of psychology, tests of intelligence were cobbled together with little thought as to validity; instead, the socially powerful sought to validate their power and the prominent to rationalize their success. In recent years, we have ob- ated many of the objections to IQ that were so forcefully noted by Stephen Jay Gould in The Mismeasure of Man. (Estratto dal sito dell'editore)
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| Description | *Human intelligence and medical illness : assessing the Flynn effect / R. Grant Steen. - New York : Springer, 2009. - 1 testo elettronico (XII, 218 p.) | |
| ISBN | 9781441900913 | |
| ISBN E-Book | 9781441900920 | |
| OCLC | 560549362 | |
| Series | Springer series on human exceptionality | |
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ADHD Assessment Asthma Attention Deficit Disorder Brain Plasticity Childhood Neglect Cognitive Impairment Development Developmental Psychology Flynn Effect Intelligence Intervention Psychiatry Public Health |
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| Publication place | New York | |
| Publisher | Springer <editore> | |
| Publication year | 2009 |