Bias in Mental Testing [Board book]

Arthur R. Jensen (Author)

Product Details

• Board book: 786 pages
• Publisher: Free Press (January 1, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0029164303
• ISBN-13: 978-0029164303
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #795,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful Refutation of a Comfortable Old Canard, January 21, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Bias in Mental Testing (Board book)

Jensen's "Bias in Mental Testing" has only one object: to examine and evaluate the common charge that the reason certain groups have lower average intelligence test scores is because the tests used to measure that intelligence are "culturally biased." It is not an effort to prove the "superiority" or "inferiority" of any racial group, nor is it in any meaningful sense "hereditarian," and its misuse by racialist groups, harped on by one reviewer who doesn't seem to have read the book himself, is completely irrelevant. In over 700 pages of scholarly and judicious writing, Jensen effectively demolishes the comfortable rationalization that "cultural" or other bias in the tests used offers even a partial explanation for group IQ testing differences---even demonstrating for example that minority test takers still score lower on average on tests that are specifically designed to be biased culturally in favor of minority test takers. No material in this study has been superseded or effectively challenged, and the claim made by another reviewer that it is "of historical interest only" would be ridiculous if it weren't so obviously deceitful. The book is in fact essential reading for those interested in issues of human intelligence and its testing, and should not be used as a polemical football either by "racists" or "anti-racists."

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for psychologists, June 1, 2003

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This review is from: Bias in Mental Testing (Board book)

Jensen's book is the best intoduction to psychometric bias I have found. When the book was written, it was the tops in the field. Now it just needs a few chapters addendum on latent-trait methods to make it complete.

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Work, January 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Bias in Mental Testing (Board book)

Still a very well respected work among psychologists despite what Mr. isreal (see below) wants you to believe. Don't take my word for it. Search the web for this and all works by A Jensen. Modern research has still yet to refute the well founded and scientifically supported claim that there are real differences in intelligence between races. Egalitarians are driven frantic by this but nothing is more important than truth.