Tag: aptitude testing

Notes on videos of Arthur Jensen defending his work

Dec 5, 2020Russell T. WarneA. James Gregor, Aaron V. Cicourel, achievement testing, aptitude testing, Arthur Jensen, Arthur L. Stinchcombe, Curt Stern, human variability, intelligence testing, IQ testing, Jack King, John Hurst, Joshua Lederberg, Lee Cronbach, Paul Kay, Phil Donahue, scientific communication, standardized tests, test bias, William J. Libby Jr.

The most important name in intelligence research in the second half of the 20th century is educational psychologist Arthur Jensen (1923-2012). From the late 1960s until his death, Jensen was the world’s foremost intelligence researcher who singlehandedly made methodological and scientific breakthroughs that greatly advanced intelligence research. I never got to meet Arthur Jensen, but…

The jangle fallacy: Aptitude ≈ achievement

After my last post about the jingle fallacy, it is impossible to resist talking about the jangle fallacy. In short, the jangle fallacy occurs when a person treats two concepts as being different because there are different words for them. The jangle fallacy occurs because “. . . psychologists can name more things than they…