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A word test isn’t an IQ test. Nobody is disputing that tests in general can be culturally biased, but we are talking about IQ tests specifically.
by briandear 7y ago
A word test isn’t an IQ test. Nobody is disputing that tests in general can be culturally biased, but we are talking about IQ tests specifically.
- sonnyblarney 7y agoThey use (or used) word tests for IQ. Things like 'bear is to dog as fish is to: a) flower b) whale c) door d) donkey' ... kind of thing. It's not supposed to test language proficiency, but it can have an effect.
- ben_w 7y agoWonderful example in the same vein from my secondary school English teacher: Black and (a) white, (b) blue, (c) proud, (d) decker.
- xyzzyz 7y agoWord tests are used as part of good, high quality IQ tests (e.g. WAIS and Stanford-Binet, though obviously not Raven’s). They are in fact one of the most useful and predictive parts (I.e. they are most g-loaded). They are biased (i.e. not measurement invariant) if you compare subjects from different countries/cultures, but they are not biased if you compare subjects from the same country/culture. For example, the score on word analogies sections has exact same predictive validity for white Americans as it does for black Americans. See Arthur Jensen’s “Bias in mental testing” for a very comprehensive treatise on the issue.