Dividends Are Not Royalties

It has been frequently noted that I.Q. examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, confronting a seemingly innocuous phrase like "behind the sofa" on an I.Q. test, may find it unfathomable, not realizing that it is just a middle-class way of saying "in back of the couch."This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

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