The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (151 page)

Standard deviations

computation of, 579-580

defined, 44, 581-582

normal distribution and, 44, 580-582

Standard scores, 579-580

Stanford-Binet IQ test, 5, 7, 290, 308

Statistics, 567-568, 570, 577-591

correlation coefficient, 2-3, 67-69, 585-588

dependent variable, 122

factor analysis, 3-4, 18-19, 704-707

frequency distributions, 577-579

independent variable, 122

median overlap, 48-49

meta-analysis, 71-73

normal distribution, 44, 580-582

regression analysis:
see
Regression analysis

regression to the mean, 357

restriction of range, 68-69

standard deviations:
see
Standard deviations

validity, 72-75, 81, 84-87, 557, 567-572

Sternberg, Robert, 16, 17

Stevenson, Harold, 274, 300, 437

Sutherland, Edwin, 241

System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA), 304-306

TALENT, 118-119, 146, 423

Teacher competency examinations, 493-494

Terman, Lewis, 5, 7, 57, 162

Test bias, 12, 280-286, 649-661

external evidence of, 280-281, 483-484, 649-654

internal evidence of, 281-282

item bias, 654-657

situational

coaching, 657-659

examiner bias, 659

language difficulties, 282, 660, 661

motivation to try, 282-284

practice effects, 657-659

test anxiety, 659

“uniform background,” 285-286

Test validity:
see
Validity, test

Thurstone, Louis, 15, 539

Transracial adoption study, 309-310

Underclass

attitudes of cognitive elite toward, 521, 523

custodial state scenario and, 523-526

spatial concentration and, 522, 524

white, emerging, 520-521

Unemployment, 163-165

educational attainment and, 164-165

ethnic differences in, 327-329

low-IQ prevalence and, 374-375, 568, 574

socioeconomic status vs. IQ and, 163-165

Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, 485, 486, 490, 684-686

University of California at Berkeley, 43, 453-455

University of Virginia, 453-454

Validity, test

correlation of results, 559

job productivity and, 72-75, 81, 84-87, 560, 682, 684, 685

test bias and, 280-281, 483-484, 573, 649-654

Valued places in society, 535-540

Van Court, Marian, 347

Variables, 122, 569

Verba, Sidney, 259, 260

Verbal skills, 300-301, 422-423, 425-429, 431, 433, 443

Vernon, Philip, 15, 273, 300-301

Vincent, Ken, 290

Vining, Daniel, Jr., 347

Voss, Harwin, 250

Voting behavior, 255, 258-263

educational attainment and, 259-261

IQ and, 261-262

socioeconomic status and, 258-259

Wages:
see
Income

Wards Cove Packing Co., Inc.
v.
Atonio
(1989), 686-687

Washington, George, 531

Wechsler, David, 6-7

Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, (WAIS), 7, 151-152, 290

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), 7, 275, 302, 303, 566

Weikart, David, 404

Weinberg, Richard, 309-310

Welfare dependency, 191-201

child abuse and, 209

chronic, 194, 196-199

by cognitive class, 193-195

developmental problems and, 229

educational attainment and, 193, 196-197, 198-199

ethnic differences in, 331-332

home environment for child development and, 223-224

illegitimacy and, 186-187, 188-190

low-IQ prevalence and, 376-377

probabilities after birth of first child, 195-196

socioeconomic status and, 195-201

trends in, 192-193

Westingbouse Science Talent Search, 42-43

White, T. H., 532-533

Wilson, James Q., 543, 555

Wilson, William Julius, 522, 555

Wolfinger, Raymond, 258, 259

Wonderlic Personnel Test, 504

Young, Leontine, 213

Zimbabwean sample, 566

Zindi, Fred, 566