Measuring Intelligence: Facts and Fallacies

'This book represents a step forward in the debate on measuring intelligence. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the 'intelligence debate'. It will also make excellent reading for anyone learning about factor analysis, and provides a perfect illustration of the Bartholomew school of measurement models.' International Statistical Institute

'... unquestionably well researched and very thorough.' Significance

'... the author manages to present his ideas in a way that is both accessible to the general reader and useful to scholars in the relevant fields.' Science Direct

'... commendable for its thoughtfulness and good judgment.' Intelligence 33

The testing of intelligence has a long and controversial history. It is not even agreed whether intelligence exists and, if it does whether it can be measured. The debate about it has centred on the nurture versus nature controversy and especially on alleged racial differences and the hertitability of intelligence. This book aims to penetrate the mists of controversy, ideology and prejudice which surround the measurement of intelligence and to provide a clear, non-mathematical treatment drawing on familiar everyday ideas.

David J. Bartholomew is Emeritus Professor of Statistics, London School of Economics, Fellow of the British Academy and a former president of the Royal Statistical Society. He is a member of the editorial board of various journals and has published numerous books and journal articles in the fields of statistics and social measurement.