[kj] Wikipedia entry on Jaz Coleman

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A flaw in IQ testing is that it is based in knowledge systems.  Social and cultural conditions can in essence affect the experience needed to gain certain knowledge.
 
"The Bell Curve is a simple treatise of conservative ideology, like Miller's review, and in its biased treatment of data its purpose is revealed as simple advocacy of a particular position.  Nothing new about that.  The problem is that Herrnstein and Murray and those who blindly accept their data in the absence of scientific skepticism, misuse or misunderstand science to further their agenda.  There may be inherited group differences in intelligence.  
However, Herrnstein and Murray have failed to provide adequate refutation of the alternative hypotheses."
 
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> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:52:18 -0500> From: bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> To: gathering at misera.net> Subject: Re: [kj] Wikipedia entry on Jaz Coleman> > Yeah, I have read that, too -- that it is basically impossible on a > standard Stanford-Binet IQ test to even have an IQ register 190, that it > cuts off at 135 or something?> > -Oliver> > > > Bette Dillinger wrote:> > LOL. Yes I have read that entry. Oh man. > > > > First, using the standard bell curve that the MMPI and other IQ tests > > use, it is *impossible* to have an IQ of 190, as it would be to have > > an IQ of 10. > > > >> > _______________________________________________> Gathering mailing list> Gathering at misera.net> http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/gathering

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