On Dec 31, 5:06*am, (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article , Neil Brooks wrote:

On Dec 30, 8:20=A0pm, "J. Clarke" wrote:
Neil Brooks wrote:
How about a minimum IQ standard???

Looks good on paper but has a _bad_ history in the US, where a black Caltech
PhD couldn't pass the government's IQ test but an inbred white hick could in
some states.

They do usually point to Stanford-Binet as being *terrifyingly*
culturally biased, so ... yeah ... I agree.

It's not just the Stanford-Binet -- they *all* are. Not as badly now as they
used to be, however.

As I suggested yesterday, read "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephen Jay Gould.
It will open your eyes.

Ordered, and ... thanks.