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Intelligence and ‘Inspection Time’

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A Model for Intelligence

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In recent years it has been widely believed that IQ tests are intrinsically ‘arbitrary’: in so far as IQ tests reflect any real differences between people at all, these differences are said to consist merely in particular types of ‘academic’ ability that should properly interest only narrow minded educational elitists; and if such differences endure through childhood this is merely because they are created and perpetuated by lasting social and educational injustices that are thought to be peculiarly prevalent under Western capitalism. Further testimony to this ‘arbitrariness’ of IQ tests has often been sought in the lack of any ‘theoretical basis’ for IQ tests. Thus the British National Union of Teachers advises its members: “....the definition of ‘intelligence’ seems to rely on criteria which are subjective and social rather than objective and scientific” (Rose 1978).

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    Hans J. Eysenck

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Brand, C.R., Deary, I.J. (1982). Intelligence and ‘Inspection Time’. In: Eysenck, H.J. (eds) A Model for Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68664-1_5

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