Re: Hmm - I think someone may have a short career

Dave Smith wrote:


It is intiguing to me, who thinks that IQ testing was probably 

developed

largely for the purpose of testing who would benefit most from more 

advanced

academic education 

>
It wasn't, it was developed for the US Army to decide who to use for
cannon fodder and who to use to provide cannon fodder control.



IIRC, we discussed the origins of IQ testing a while ago.  I think a French
psychologist, Binet, is usually said to be the founder of IQ tests.  He
began developing them about a century ago, to pick out less able
schoolchildren.  I expect Lance knows the details.


Yes we did discuss this a while back. The English psychologist Spearman was investigating them using a graphical form of factor analysis in the early 1900s, and already claiming that the results indicated a "G" factor. Perhaps Peter is referring to the fact that the first "group" administered IQ tests were developed for the US Army circa WW1.

Lance
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