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''The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy'' is a book published by Smith College professor emeritus Stanley Rothman and Harvard researcher Mark Snyderman in 1988. Claiming to document liberal bias in media coverage of scientific findings regarding intelligence quotient (IQ), the book builds on a survey of the opinions of hundreds of North American psychologists, sociologists and educationalists conducted by the authors in 1984. The book includes also an analysis of the reporting on intelligence testing by the press and television in the US for the period 1969–1983, as well as an opinion poll of 207 journalists and 86 science editors about IQ testing. == Introduction == Snyderman and Rothman originally conducted their survey in 1984 because they felt that intelligence testing had been portrayed in the media as being in direct opposition to egalitarianism. They described the IQ controversy in terms of two conflicting sets of values in the US: egalitarianism, favouring equal opportunity, and meritocracy, favouring individual differences. In the 1960s, in the light of the civil rights movement, an environmental view of intelligence differences, de-emphasizing heritability, had become prevalent. In their view equality of opportunity had been transformed to mean equality of outcome, to the detriment of more able individuals. As they wrote: As a consequence, they wrote that attitudes to intelligence testing had changed:〔 Snyderman and Rothman claimed that the media had misrepresented the views of experts, so that the public now believed that it was impossible to define intelligence, that IQ or aptitude tests were outmoded and that environmentalism and hereditarianism were incompatible points of view. As they wrote:〔〔 The purpose of their survey was to challenge what they considered to be the media's portrayal of intelligence testing. Their study had three parts: *A questionnaire with 48 multiple choice questions sent to 1020 academics in 1984 (661 replies), reported in *An analysis of all coverage of issues related to intelligence tests in major US print and television news sources (1969–1983) conducted by 9 trained graduate students *An opinion poll of 207 journalists concerning their attitudes to intelligence and aptitude tests (119 replies); 86 editors of popular science magazines were also polled (50 replies) The 1020 experts were chosen randomly from the following professional bodies: *American Educational Research Association (120) *National Council on Measurement in Education (120) *American Psychological Association: * *Development psychology division (120) * *Educational psychology division (120) * *Evaluation and Measurement division (120) * *School psychology division (120) * *Counseling psychology division (60) * *Industrial and organizational psychology division (60) *Behavior Genetics Association (60) *American Sociological Association (education) (60) *Cognitive Science Society (60) The 16 page questionnaire had 48 multiple choice questions spread over 6 different sections:〔, Appendix F, facsimile of 1984 questionnaire〕 *The nature of intelligence (1-10) *The heritability of intelligence (11-14) *Race, class and cultural differences in IQ (15-23) *The use of intelligence testing (24-33) *Professional activities and involvement with intelligence testing (34-40) *Personal and social background (41-48) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy (book)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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