The Intelligence Men: Makers of the I.Q. Controversy

292 Pages·1985·35.019 MB·English

by  Raymond E. Fancher

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THE
INTELLIGENCE
MEN:
Makers of the
IQ Controversy
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ALSO BY RAYMOND FANCHER
E.
Psychoanalytic Psychology: The Development of Freud's Thought
Pioneers of Psychology
THE
INTELLIGENCE
MEN:
Makers
of the
IQ Controversy
Raymond
Fancher
E.
W W ®
• • NORTON COMPANY • New York • London
Copyright © 1985 by Raymond E. Faneher
All rights reserved.
Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 2801 John
Street, Markham, Ontario L3R 1B4.
Printed in the United States of America.
The text of this book is composed in 10/12 Baskerville, with display type set in
Windsor Light Condensed. Composition and manufacturing by The Maple-Vail
Book Manufacturing Croup.
Book design by Nancy Dale Muldoon.
First published as a Norton paperback 1987.
Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data
Fancher, Raymond E.
The intelligence men: Makers ofthe IQ controversy.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
—
1. Intellect. 2. Intelligence tests History.
I. Title.
BF431.F27 1985 153.9 84-27381
ISBN D-B^G-TSSES-V
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 101 10
W. W. Norton & Company Ltd., 37 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3NU
4567890
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In memoriam
Bernard Norton
Digitized by the Internet Archive
2012
in
http://archive.org/details/intelligencemenOOraym
Contents
List of Portraits
ix
Preface xi
The Nature-Nurture Controversy
1 i
2 The Invention of Intelligence Tests 41
3 Intelligence Redefined 84
4 The Rise of Intelligence Testing 117
5 Twins and the Genetics of IQ 162
6 Conclusion 226
Notes 242
Index
257