Stories
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
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Exceptional talent and the trouble with IQ tests
Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?
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How tuberculosis became a test case for eugenic theory
A 19th-century collaboration that failed to prove how facial features could indicate the diseases people were most likely to suffer from became a significant stepping stone in the new ‘science’ of eugenics.
Catalogue
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Intelligence, psychology and education : a Marxist critique / Brian Simon.
Simon, Brian.Date: 1971- Books
Mental measurement in educational and vocational guidance : a condensed statement of the problem, the means available, the appropriate procedure, and the results achieved, with bibliographies / John M. Brewer [and others].
Brewer, John M. (John Marks), 1877-1950.Date: 1924- Books
Psychological and educational testing / Lewis R. Aiken, Jr.
Aiken, Lewis R., 1931-Date: [1971], ©1971- Books
Interpretation of educational measurements / by Truman Lee Kelley.
Kelley, Truman Lee, 1884-1961.Date: [1927], ©1927- Books
The nineteen forty mental measurements yearbook / Oscar Krisen Buros, editor.
Date: 1941
