IQ Tests

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This paper explains that the bias in IQ testing is a cultural bias. The author points out that the items on intelligence tests, such as the Stanford-Binet test, were developed within the North American cultural context and are designed solely for that context. The paper relates that this cultural bias is manifested in both the general factor analysis and the five factor analysis.

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"IQ tests are designed very specifically to test logical thinking within a particular cultural context. The bias in these tests is cultural, and tends to heavily favor people with a white middle class background. The most widely used IQ tests reward social class, education, and experience. Meanwhile, educational and occupational success is not completely correlated with intelligence. IQ tests mainly measure only one form of intelligence, crystallized intelligence. Certain types of intelligence are barely included, while other abilities cannot be tested at all. The only means for addressing the deficiencies is to focus on the cultural bias. Cultural bias is manifested in both general factor analysis and five factor analysis".

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