Marxist Criticisms of IQ: A Defence of Jensen
Keywords:
IQ testing, intelligence research, Arthur Jensen, heritability, Marxist, psychometricsAbstract
Radical Marxist critics have charged that IQ testing and IQ research, as represented by the work of Arthur Jensen, are either disguised racist ideology or pseudopsychological science. This article argues that the historical evidence marshalled in support of the first charge is both selective and irrelevant, and that the technical arguments advanced to support the second charge that IQ research is pseudoscience reflect both serious misunderstandings and misrepresentations of Jensen’s views on the nature and heritability of IQ.
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