> All that is from my Psych notes.
> I wonder if the lecture notes are accessible from outside the university? Click on the link to find out...
>
> > It sounds like something kludged together to justify eugenics propaganda in the last century.
>
> Nope, it's the real thing. (I believe my lecturer; you think that's a mistake?)
>
> The thing is, until early this century, there was no way of actually *measuring* intelligence, so people had to guess.
>
> (Now we just argue over whether the thing that the tests measure is really intelligence or just knowledge, and what is intelligence anyway, and...)
>
> Paul

Thanks! Now I'm all curious about that "psychometric g" construct being referred to by Stephen J Gould ("The chimerical nature of g is the rotten core of Jensen's edifice..."). What is g?...why was something like that so important, if it can be defined in straight-faced terms?

Wolfspirit