Cultural Factors in Intelligence-Test Performance

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ID4048960
AuthorsOtto Klineberg (corresponding author)
Year1934
Volume3
Issue3
Pages478
Publication date1934-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Negro Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2984 • E-ISSN: 2167-6437
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2292384
OpenAlexW2320443804
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In the recent history of intelligence testing, more particularly as it concerns race differences, there has been an ever-increasing emphasis on the importance of cultural or environmental factors. This does not necessarily mean that the results of the tests have no basis in heredity; it does mean, however, that any interpretation of these results must wait upon a complete analysis of the way in which enters into the determination of test performance. It is perhaps unnecessary to point out that the term culture is used in this context in its very widest sense, to include not only the very striking contrasts in ways of living with which the ethnologist deals, but also the minor variations within our own which are more directly the province of the sociologist and the psychologist. Both types of difference in may determine to a large extent how a subject will react to any test situation. When the cultural differences are great, the tests so far developed may be entirely inapplicable. In extreme cases, even the competitive attitude, which test performance almost invariably presupposes, may be entirely lacking. Porteus,' for example, reports that the Australian natives whom he tested were accustomed to doing

Cultural intelligence · Test (biology) · Geology · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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