Re:IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries
by briandear on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @02:55PM
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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.
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Re:IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries
by xyzzyz on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:13PM
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Word 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.
Re:IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries
by sonnyblarney on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:05PM
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They 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.