Measuring intelligence : facts and fallacies /
by David J. Bartholomew.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- xiv, 172 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-167) and index.
Ch. 1. The great intelligence debate: science or ideology? -- Ch. 2. Origins -- Ch. 3. The end of IQ? -- Ch. 4. First steps to g -- Ch. 5. Second steps to g -- Ch. 6. Extracting g -- Ch. 7. Factor analysis or principal components analysis? -- Ch. 8. One intelligence or many? -- Ch. 9. The Bell Curve: facts, fallacies and speculations -- Ch. 10. What is g? -- Ch. 11. Are some groups more intelligent than others? -- Ch. 12. Is intelligence inherited.
The testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history. Claims that it is a pseudo-science or a weapon of ideological warfare have been commonplace and there is not even a consensus as to whether intelligence exists and, if it does, whether it can be measured. As a result the debate about it has centred on the nurture versus nature controversy and especially on alleged racial differences and the heritability of intelligence - all of which have major policy implications. This book aims to penetrate the mists of controversy, ideology and prejudice by providing a clear non-mathematical framework for the definition and measurement of intelligence derived from modern factor analysis. Building on this framework and drawing on everyday ideas the author address key controversies in a clear and accessible style and explores some of the claims made by well known writers in the field such as Stephen Jay Gould and Michael Howe.