Race and Intelligence : Separating Science from Myth (RACE, HEREDITY, INTELLIGENCE TESTING)

Mahwah, NJ, U.S.A.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Incorporated. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0805837574 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED 436 pages. IMPORTANT: An extremely clean copy with no marks to the interior pages, no writing or underlining. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. From a review in Personnel Psychology, Inc. : "Few issues have borne witness to a debate as long and heated as that of population differences in cognitive abilities. Race and Intelligence, another recent addition to this vast literature, purports to have two purposes: (a) to replace existing myths regarding race and intelligence with five "facts," and (b) to promote informed communication among readers from different academic disciplines as well as the general public. To reach these aims, the book's 14 substantive chapters-authored by a wide range of social scientists from psychology, anthropology, biology, economics, history, philosophy, sociology, and statistics-are organized into five sections corresponding to each of the five `facts,' the editor seeks to establish. "Part I posits that there are no biological races among humans; "race" exists only as socially defined categories based on morphological and biological variations in human subpopulations. Different cultures have developed different taxonomies for defining races. Part II forwards a political thesis, arguing that racial categories are developed for the purpose of justifying and perpetuating social inequalities and that IQ testing is part of this process. Part III examines the merits of intelligence tests themselves, forwarding the thesis that IQ tests inherently measure only cultural (i. E. , white, middle-class, American) content, values, and assumptions taught through formal education. Two propositions are advanced in Part IV: that certain statistical concepts common in cognitive ability research have been occasionally misused or misconstrued and that the psychometric structure of cognitive abilities is hierarchical. The authors writing in Part V suggest that there are alternative interpretations of the analyses described in The Bell Curve (1996) and that the data imply population differences are social in origin." -- with a bonus offer--; .