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Murdoch, S. (2007). IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons (288 pp., $24.95, pb, ISBN: 978-0471699774)
If you would like to know about the early history of testing for intelligence then this book has much to offer you. But keep your critical faculties sharp. By the time I'd read to the end I felt that the author, Stephen Murdoch, was getting so desperate to fulfill the promise of his title that he has to resort to bald statements such as, "The history of the use of IQ tests is appalling. IQ tests have often been used for the vilest purposes ..." (p. 231).
Where the author really scores is his production of a great page-turning read of the history of the subject. He is a good journalist. All those...
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