Bias in Mental Testing

By A.R. Jensen. 1980

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Why Beautiful People Are More Intelligent. (2004, background): “…the mean IQ of individuals in the occupation is between .90 and .95, although the correlation between occupational prestige and individual IQ across individuals is only about .50 to .75 due to the large variance in intelligence among individuals in any given occupation (Jensen, 1980, pp. 340–341).”
The Neuroscience of Intelligence (2016, background): “Considerable research on test bias for decades shows this is not the case for IQ and other intelligence test scores (Jensen, 1980).”
Addressing Underrepresentation of Gifted Minority Children Using the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT) (2003, background): “…been consistently criticized for its poor psychometric qualities, including the lack of a well-constructed norm group, uneven gradients of item difficulty, inadequate numbers of items, and the need for better documentation of psychometric qualities in the test manual Jensen, 1980; Nicholson, 1989).”
ETHNIC GROUP DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE ABILITY IN EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS: A META‐ANALYSIS (2001, methodology): “It should also be clear that our analysis of the same Wonderlic set of data used by Jensen (1980) appears to contradict his conclusions that the GAES of 1.0 applies to all employment situations.”
Personality and intelligence as predictors of academic achievement : A cross-sectional study from elementary to secondary school (2007, background): “The magnitude of the correlation between GPA and intelligence was generally around 0.5, and in accordance with previous research (Jensen, 1980), showed a decreasing tendency in older grades.”
Raven's is not a pure measure of general intelligence: Implications for g factor theory and the brief measurement of g (2015, methodology): “The data analysed in this investigation were derived from three well-known samples: (1) the Marshalek, Lohman, and Snow (1983) sample of 241 Palo Alto, California high-school students(1); (2) the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart sample (MISTRA; Johnson & Bouchard, 2011) of 433 adults (56.9% fem”