Stanford-Binet Scale "L" Response Patterns in Matched Racial Groups

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Subsequent to the development of the intelligence test as an instrument of mental measurement, a considerable portion of the literature of psychology has been devoted to the comparison of the relative amounts of intelligence possessed by various racial groups. In this country, such studies have been centered on Negro-white differences and have shown rather consistently a disparity in intelligence which has favored the white group. This result is the expected one, in view of the dual educational and social systems which are maintained by law in the Southern United States, and the wide disparity in socio-economic opportunities for whites and Negroes in the North. Results from the mass testing by the United States Army during the World War revealed the relation of environment to performance on the Army Alpha Intelligence Test. This raised the question as to whether superior persons migrate to a more favorable environment or whether the more favorable environment itself produces superiority. Klineberg1 approached this problem by studying Negro school children in various sections of the country. He found no difference in intelligence between children of migrated

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