This chapter explores the use of IQ testing in professional sports, specifically in the NFL, and discusses its history, criticisms, and negative impacts. It also delves into the dark history of IQ tests, including their use in officer training during World War I and the forced sterilization of individuals with low IQ scores in Virginia.
Are gifted and talented programs discriminatory? Why do so many adults still remember their SAT scores? And how did Angela transform from a party girl to an Ivy League psychologist?
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- "What’s the Best Way to Find a Gifted 4-Year-Old?" by Ginia Bellafante (The New York Times, 2022).
- "Without the Wonderlic, the N.F.L. Finds Other Ways to Test Football I.Q.," by Robert O’Connell (The New York Times, 2022).
- "The Dark History of I.Q. Tests," by Stefan Dombrowski (TED-Ed, 2020).
- Grinnell College 2019 Commencement Address, by Amy Tan (2019).
- "Universal Screening Increases the Representation of Low-Income and Minority Students in Gifted Education," by David Card and Laura Giuliano (PNAS, 2016).
- "The Supreme Court Ruling That Led To 70,000 Forced Sterilizations," by Terry Gross (Fresh Air, 2016).
- "Intelligence Is Not Enough: Non-IQ Predictors of Achievement," by Angela Lee Duckworth (Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 2006).
- "Pygmalion in the Classroom," by Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson (The Urban Review, 1968).