IQ Biases
A set of interrelated biases that cluster around IQ testing: cultural bias in test design, environmental bias (ignoring nutrition and schooling), scoring bias (assuming equal intervals across the scale), heritability bias (overstating genetic contribution), and reification bias (treating a constructed score as a real thing). IQ biases reinforce social hierarchies by making contingent outcomes seem natural and inevitable.
IQ Biases Example: “The textbook’s chapter on intelligence suffered from multiple IQ biases: it used old, culturally loaded questions and concluded that group differences were genetic.”
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