The I.Q. controversy : Critical readings /

Includes sections on the Walter Lippmann and Lewis Terman debate, race, genetics, and intelligence.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Block, Ned Joel, 1942-, Dworkin, Gerald, 1937-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, [1976]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. IQ : The Lippmann-Terman debate
  • The mental age of Americans ; The mystery of the "A" men ; The reliability of intelligence tests ; The abuse of the tests ; Tests of hereditary intelligence ; A future for the tests / Walter Lippmann
  • The great conspiracy / Lewis M. Terman
  • The great confusion / Walter Lippmann
  • Letter to The New Republic, January 17, 1923 / Lewis M. Terman
  • Letter to The New Republic, January 17, 1923 / Walter Lippmann
  • Testing for competence rather than for "intelligence" / David C. McClelland
  • Part II. Genetic component of IQ differences
  • Race and intelligence / Richard C. Lewontin
  • Race and the genetics of intelligence : a reply to Lewontin / Arthur R. Jensen
  • Further remarks on race and the genetics of intelligence / Richard C. Lewontin
  • Unknowns in the IQ equation / Sandra Scarr-Salapatek
  • Limitations to genetic comparison of populations ; Educability and group differences / J.M. Thoday
  • Behavior-genetic analysis and its biosocial consequences / Jerry Hirsch
  • The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes / Richard C. Lewontin
  • Science or superstition? A physical scientist looks at the IQ controversy / David Layzer
  • Heredity, intelligence, politics, and psychology : I / Leon J. Kamin
  • Mysteries of the meritocracy / Arthur S. Goldberger
  • Part III. Social and political consequences
  • The fallacy of Richard Herrnstein's IQ / Noam Chomsky
  • Whatever happened to vaudeville? A reply to Professor Chomsky / Richard J. Herrnstein
  • Comments on Herrnstein's response / Noam Chomsky
  • Five myths about your IQ / Mary Jo Bane and Christopher Jencks
  • Testing for order and control in the corporate liberal state / Clarence J. Karier
  • Heredity, intelligence, politics, and psychology : II / Leon J. Kamin
  • Genetics and educability : educational implications of the Jensen debate / Carl Bereiter
  • Part IV. IQ, heritability, inequality
  • IQ, heritability, and inequality / N.J. Block and Gerald Dworkin.