The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy

by Stanley Rothman and Mark Snyderman

Questions about the nature of intelligence and intelligence testing have sparked increasing controversy during the past two decades. The widely held view that intelligence is measureable, and both genetic endowment and environment are key determinants of intelligence, first came under sharp attack during the decade of the 1960s. It was asserted that we do not know what intelligence is, that we do not know how to measure intelligence, and that IQ tests...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887381510
• ISBN13: 9780887381515
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.