TESTING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
STUDYING GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON INTELLIGENCE
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they measure abilities that many individuals already have
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they are valid
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they measure developed abilities, which reflect an individual’s education and experiences
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they test only a few individuals at a time
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they require the same group of individuals to be tested over and over again
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tests can be biased in terms of impact (e.g., how they are used) and statistically. Tests can be biased if they treat groups unfairly or discriminate against diverse groups by, for example, “underestimating their potential or over-pathologizing their symptoms” (Suzuki et al., 1996, p.
Detailed explanation-2: -Indeed, they are often a good indicator that the psychologists should investigate whether test bias is present. But-by themselves-they are not sufficient to show that a test is actually biased. So how common is test bias in professionally developed tests? The answer is that it is almost non-existent.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the psychologist definition of bias, are intelligence tests biased? yes because they reflect on education and experiences.