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What is the size of your vocabulary?

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What is the size of your vocabulary?
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RE: What is the size of your vocabulary?
July 18, 2011 at 8:49 am
(July 18, 2011 at 1:28 am)CharlieMilles Wrote:
(July 18, 2011 at 1:22 am)Epimethean Wrote: Interesting point on IQ tests:

"Few people realize that the tests today represent the end result of a historical process that has its origins in racial and cultural bigotry. Many of the founding fathers of the modern testing industry-including Goddard, Terman and Carl Brighan (the developer of the Scholastic Aptitude Test)-advocated eugenics."

http://iq-test.learninginfo.org/iq01.htm
Yeah, I've heard that bullshit 'argument' before. Too bad there names were Goddard, Terman and Brighan and not Li, Wang and Zhang. Then, the argument might not be a complete waste of time.

Since even the creator of the tests, Binet, hazarded that such tests were likely to be misused, I think there's a truth to it. IQ tests are passe these days, especially on the heels of what Howard Gardner has been working on.
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What is the size of your vocabulary? - by theVOID - July 17, 2011 at 6:49 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Jax - July 17, 2011 at 7:42 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Jax - July 17, 2011 at 7:16 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by theVOID - July 17, 2011 at 7:16 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Darwinian - July 17, 2011 at 8:05 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Darwinian - July 17, 2011 at 8:28 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Darwinian - July 17, 2011 at 1:17 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by DaveD - July 17, 2011 at 8:25 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Violet - July 17, 2011 at 4:18 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by leo-rcc - July 17, 2011 at 8:56 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Epimethean - July 17, 2011 at 11:26 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Sciwoman - July 17, 2011 at 12:36 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by fr0d0 - July 17, 2011 at 12:46 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by kriskiran - July 17, 2011 at 12:55 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Violet - July 17, 2011 at 4:04 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Shell B - July 17, 2011 at 5:08 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Shell B - July 17, 2011 at 5:33 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Cinjin - July 17, 2011 at 6:57 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Ace Otana - July 17, 2011 at 7:10 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by padraic - July 17, 2011 at 7:18 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by padraic - July 17, 2011 at 11:44 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Anymouse - July 17, 2011 at 8:43 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by theVOID - July 18, 2011 at 10:41 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Violet - July 18, 2011 at 12:27 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Epimethean - July 18, 2011 at 8:49 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Rev. Rye - July 18, 2011 at 8:20 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by DaveD - July 18, 2011 at 9:35 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by leo-rcc - July 18, 2011 at 10:54 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Epimethean - July 19, 2011 at 12:14 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by theVOID - July 19, 2011 at 3:58 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Shell B - July 19, 2011 at 4:06 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by theVOID - July 19, 2011 at 4:29 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Shell B - July 19, 2011 at 4:33 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Tiberius - July 19, 2011 at 5:04 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by padraic - July 19, 2011 at 10:34 pm
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Jackalope - July 20, 2011 at 2:03 am
RE: What is the size of your vocabulary? - by Gogyoo - July 26, 2011 at 5:37 am

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