An IQ test, therefore, should not be considered a measure of a person's intelligence. ... For example, East Asians, such as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, typically obtain higher scores on intelligence test and achievement tests that white Americans. ... On the other hand, some people believe that some tests are either racially or culturally biased which leads to the differences in test scores for different races and ethnicities. ... A perfect example is an aptitude or intelligence test. ... For example, if French and English speaking Canadians takes vocabulary tests and the test is in En...

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The Educational Testing Service (ETS) adopted the SAT I back in 1944. ... The original test, known as the "Army Alpha" was an IQ test administered by the United States Army to evaluate the intelligence of new recruits. Following the war, the Army Alpha was adapted and transformed for the purpose of a college admissions test, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.l) .The first test was experimentally administered to a few thousand college applicants in 1926. ... Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips, editors of the 1998 book, The Black- White Test Score Gap, argued that African Americans will always scor...

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The support for this lies in the lop-sided SAT scores, because, according to the SAT test results, "on average, black Americans are significantly less intelligent than whites" (Feagin, 244). ... This statement reiterates the opposition's belief that you cannot be equal in jobs if you are not equal in IQ. There have been advances in test scores in recent history, however their "improvement is not enough to gain entry without racial preferences today" (Glazer, 52). ... However, it has also been stated that African American students who attend nonselective institutions with lower test sco...

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His said it was "wrong to allow minority students with lower IQ scores than whites and Asians to be admitted into gifted programs because of their race. ... A comprehensive statewide test was given to all 10th graders in Wisconsin. "These tests cover knowledge and concepts in reading, math, science, and social studies. ...

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Eugenics in the United States Eugenics, by definition, is "The improving of genetic code to make better human beings (Mattox)." Eugenics was researched thoroughly by Sir John Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. Sir Galton attempted to figure out how it was that "genius" seemed to be ru...

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