Read The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Online
Authors: Richard J. Herrnstein,Charles A. Murray
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Standard deviations
computation of, 579-580
defined, 44, 581-582
normal distribution and, 44, 580-582
Standard scores, 579-580
Stanford-Binet IQ test, 5, 7, 290, 308
Statistics, 567-568, 570, 577-591
correlation coefficient, 2-3, 67-69, 585-588
dependent variable, 122
factor analysis, 3-4, 18-19, 704-707
frequency distributions, 577-579
independent variable, 122
median overlap, 48-49
meta-analysis, 71-73
normal distribution, 44, 580-582
regression analysis:
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Regression analysis
regression to the mean, 357
restriction of range, 68-69
standard deviations:
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Standard deviations
validity, 72-75, 81, 84-87, 557, 567-572
Sternberg, Robert, 16, 17
Stevenson, Harold, 274, 300, 437
Sutherland, Edwin, 241
System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA), 304-306
TALENT, 118-119, 146, 423
Teacher competency examinations, 493-494
Terman, Lewis, 5, 7, 57, 162
Test bias, 12, 280-286, 649-661
external evidence of, 280-281, 483-484, 649-654
internal evidence of, 281-282
item bias, 654-657
situational
coaching, 657-659
examiner bias, 659
language difficulties, 282, 660, 661
motivation to try, 282-284
practice effects, 657-659
test anxiety, 659
“uniform background,” 285-286
Test validity:
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Validity, test
Thurstone, Louis, 15, 539
Transracial adoption study, 309-310
Underclass
attitudes of cognitive elite toward, 521, 523
custodial state scenario and, 523-526
spatial concentration and, 522, 524
white, emerging, 520-521
Unemployment, 163-165
educational attainment and, 164-165
ethnic differences in, 327-329
low-IQ prevalence and, 374-375, 568, 574
socioeconomic status vs. IQ and, 163-165
Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, 485, 486, 490, 684-686
University of California at Berkeley, 43, 453-455
University of Virginia, 453-454
Validity, test
correlation of results, 559
job productivity and, 72-75, 81, 84-87, 560, 682, 684, 685
test bias and, 280-281, 483-484, 573, 649-654
Valued places in society, 535-540
Van Court, Marian, 347
Variables, 122, 569
Verba, Sidney, 259, 260
Verbal skills, 300-301, 422-423, 425-429, 431, 433, 443
Vernon, Philip, 15, 273, 300-301
Vincent, Ken, 290
Vining, Daniel, Jr., 347
Voss, Harwin, 250
Voting behavior, 255, 258-263
educational attainment and, 259-261
IQ and, 261-262
socioeconomic status and, 258-259
Wages:
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Income
Wards Cove Packing Co., Inc.
v.
Atonio
(1989), 686-687
Washington, George, 531
Wechsler, David, 6-7
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, (WAIS), 7, 151-152, 290
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), 7, 275, 302, 303, 566
Weikart, David, 404
Weinberg, Richard, 309-310
Welfare dependency, 191-201
child abuse and, 209
chronic, 194, 196-199
by cognitive class, 193-195
developmental problems and, 229
educational attainment and, 193, 196-197, 198-199
ethnic differences in, 331-332
home environment for child development and, 223-224
illegitimacy and, 186-187, 188-190
low-IQ prevalence and, 376-377
probabilities after birth of first child, 195-196
socioeconomic status and, 195-201
trends in, 192-193
Westingbouse Science Talent Search, 42-43
White, T. H., 532-533
Wilson, James Q., 543, 555
Wilson, William Julius, 522, 555
Wolfinger, Raymond, 258, 259
Wonderlic Personnel Test, 504
Young, Leontine, 213
Zimbabwean sample, 566
Zindi, Fred, 566