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echo: indian_affairs
to: LORRAINE PHILLIPS
from: SONDRA BALL
date: 1997-06-12 20:03:00
subject: BIASED TESTS

LP>I once wrote a British intelligence test which had a pictorial section
  >where the question was 'a [picture 1] is to a [picture 2] as a [picture
  >3] is to a [picture 4].'  The pictures seemed to be of small household
  >tools (which I'd never seen before).  I just guessed at the answers and
  >wondered why the English were so weird as to have these strange
  >implements as everyday objects in their lives.  :)
Grin!  It's been known for a long time that IQ tests are culturally
biased.  In America, most of them are biased in favor of white middle
and upper class folk.  But there can be surprises.  The Navajo Indians,
when given the "Draw a Horse" IQ test, out-performed the white
population by a galloping margin (and that, just after doing rather
poorly on another short IQ test.)
                  Sondra
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