intelligence tests
It's a sad but true fact that people are constantly being measured and tested everyday. This testing is not necessarily for themselves, but for others to rate and categorize the subjectee. That person is then placed and stereotyped based on the result of a test. This is unfair. However, unfair as it may be, it is still a reality today that everyone encounters during their lifetime. The job market uses tests to see where people will 'fit in' the most with what company. Colleges use tests to help determine who is selected to go to their school, and psychologists use tests to help determine if someone needs help or not. Using tests to place someone in a certain category is unfair, unjust, and biased. People are raised and brought up to their own custom, which doesn't always fit in with other's customs. People experience different situations throughout their life and often cannot relate similar experiences together. It has been shown that certain races of a culture score higher than certain races of another culture. This is not due to that one race is smarter than the other; it could be the fact that the test asked questions that favored one group or another. If you give a group of American students a
The meaning of taking these tests is to compare your score to somebody else's and see how you measure up to everyone else. This is yet again, unfair. Take for example, the SAT, which has been rewritten and questions are added and deleted yearly to try to make it more 'fair.' If you change the test in any way, you can't compare scores because it will be invalid results. Not everybody has taken the same test and that can have an affect on the way people compare them. You hear on TV of how the SAT scores are higher or lower than they were 20 years ago, and of how that supposedly represents the next generation. But if the tests taken have any slight differences in them any way, then the results and conclusions made based on those tests have to be considered inconclusive because the factors of testing were not the same. These intelligence tests are made so that they can compare the results, but they shouldn't because of the inconclusive results. So if you can't compare the results of these tests, and that's what they're made to do, then what's the point of taking these tests? test on the history of North America and compare the scores to the scores of some students from Ethiopia, of course the Americans would score higher. But you can easily reverse that effect by having the test on a topic the Ethiopians know quite a bit about and then compare it to the Americans (Kasschau, 1995). My point is the tests h
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