| 书目名称 | Human Intelligence and Medical Illness |
| 副标题 | Assessing the Flynn |
| 编辑 | R. Grant Steen |
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| 概述 | Examines the global links between the rise in IQ – known as the Flynn Effect – and general human health.Assesses whether public health improvements potentially account for the Flynn Effect.Details how |
| 丛书名称 | The Springer Series on Human Exceptionality |
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| 描述 | As critics will note, psychometric tests are deeply flawed. Person-to-person differences in performance on a psychometric test are not informative about many things of great interest. An intelligence quotient (IQ) cannot characterize creativity or w- dom or artistic ability or other forms of specialized knowledge. An IQ test is simply an effort to assess an aptitude for success in the modern world, and individual scores do a mediocre job of predicting individual successes. In the early days of psychology, tests of intelligence were cobbled together with little thought as to validity; instead, the socially powerful sought to validate their power and the prominent to rationalize their success. In recent years, we have ob- ated many of the objections to IQ that were so forcefully noted by Stephen Jay Gould in The Mismeasure of Man. Nevertheless, IQ tests are still flawed and those flaws are hereby acknowledged in principle. Yet, in the analysis that follows, individual IQ test scores are not used; rather, average IQ scores are employed. In many cases – though not all – an average IQ is calculated from a truly enormous sample of people. The most common circ- stance for such large-scale |
| 出版日期 | Book 2009 |
| 关键词 | ADD; ADHD; Assessment; Asthma; Attention Deficit Disorder; Brain Plasticity; Childhood Neglect; Cognitive I |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0092-0 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-8133-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4419-0092-0Series ISSN 1572-5642 |
| issn_series | 1572-5642 |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 |
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