From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 08:35:02 MDT
Damien wrote:
>
> The essay is brief, but on the face of it the second paragraph is
> astoundingly naive in its understanding of `environment', and
> revealingly so. Quite obviously, IQ test scores reflect not only raw
> ability, training, etc, but before all else *the willingness of the
> person being tested to do as well as possible*.
>
> `Yeah, right, I'll fill in this motherfucker's form. I just *lerrrve*
> to ace this white test shit. Yeah, I snapped my pencil. Shut up,
> bitch, I'm sleeping now, wake me when it's over.'
### This critique has been leveled against IQ tests before. There is a
number of studies refuting it. For example, there is a clear positive
correlation between the g-loading of a test item and the amount of
Black-White difference. If indeed Black test takers were less motivated,
they would fail on the items with lower g-loading (like the digit span) to
the same extent as on the highly g-loaded items (like the reverse digit
span). Of course, unless you postulate that these test takers actually
recognize the g-loading of an item and selectively suppress their responses
to the highly g-loaded ones.
Rafal
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