IQ Tests

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This paper explores the cultural bias that exists in intelligence quotient testing. The paper begins with a literary review which explains the definitions of cultural bias in testing and the historical implications. The paper also looks at the origins of the IQ test and the reasons why the cultural bias exists. The paper focuses on how cultural bias in intelligence assessment has produced historical implications.

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"Myers (1995) contends that the IQ test, as we know it, was created by a German psychologist named William Stern. The test asserts that an individual's intelligence quotient is equal to mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100. Other scientists, including Lewis Terman and Alfred Binet helped to perfect the tests. Terman believed that intelligence could be measured and that IQ tests would demonstrate that certain ethnic groups had natural propensities towards crime and lacked intelligence. (Myers 1995) He reckoned that IQ testing could eventually reduce reproduction of these ethnic groups thus creating a reduction in crime."

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