Posted: Jun 17, 2010 9:42 am
Tyrannical wrote:Hmmm, do you think? The PDF file quite clearly said intelligence, though I can see your point that special education could be seen as acquisition of knowledge. But then again, there is a correlation between IQ and ability to learn.
Well it used IQ as a measure of intelligence and IQ is (at best) a proxy for intelligence and at worst a predictor of academic achievement. The skills that IQ tests purport to measure may or may not provide a real picture of "intelligence" but my feeling is that they probably also measure, to an extent, access to education and the like.
Which is why books like the Bell Curve give the erroneous impression that people of different races have different levels of "intelligence" when really what it probably shows is that people from different races have access to different education systems.