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2007

Format:	Book
Author:	Murdoch, Stephen, 1968-
Title:	IQ : a smart history of a failed idea / Stephen Murdoch.
Publisher, Date:	Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley and Sons, ©2007.
Description:	xiv, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	"IQ scores have the power to determine the chances we have in life: the people we meet, the schools we attend, the jobs we get, the lives we live. Very few of us, however, understand what IQ tests and ratings really mean. In this book, Stephen Murdoch explains the turbulent history and controversial current uses of intelligence testing."--Jacket.
Subjects:	Intelligence levels -- History.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index.
Contents:	The problem with testing -- The origins of testing -- The birth of modern intelligence tests -- America discovers intelligence tests -- Turning back the feebleminded -- The tests that changed the world -- Alpha and beta -- From segregation to sterilization : Carrie Buck's story -- Nazis and intelligence testing -- The eleven-plus in the United Kingdom -- Intelligence testing and the death penalty in the United States -- What do IQ tests really measure? -- Alternatives to IQ -- The SAT -- Black and white IQ -- Afterword.
Web Site:	Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only
LCCN:	2006032488
ISBN:	9780471699774 9781630268701 1630268704 0471699772 9780471699774 0471699772
Other Number:	72798608
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Control Number:	758558
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Call Number:	153.9309 Murdoch

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