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Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. is a Visiting Scholar at NYU. His latest book is The Psychology of Creative Writing. See full bio
January 19, 2009, Child Development

The Equality of the Sexes I: Fact or Artefact?

Did the original IQ test constructors bias the tests in favor of men?
Satoshi Kanazawa
This post is a response to Why men are more intelligent than women by Satoshi Kanazawa

Mackintosh, N.J. (1998). IQ and Human Intelligence. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Terman, L.M. (1916).The measurement of intelligence. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Wechsler, D. (1944). Measurement of adult intelligence, (3rd edm). Baltimore, MD: Williams and Wilkins .



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