In a message dated 8/27/2001 9:57:43 AM Central Daylight Time,
raberry@acsu.buffalo.edu writes:
> You should also be aware that the current trend regarding
> classification of individuals with mental retardation does not rely
>
First, thank-you for clarifying my error, I was going off an old memory of a
lecture from the 80's.
Second, your use of the term current trend is a prime example of the crisis
Laszlo is referring to. Without the objectivity a Natural Science paradigm
offers we end up with subjective assessments based on the current trend of
the time. I of course do not advocate a categorization of people based
purely on an IQ score but the one great asset it offers is an objective
measure comparable across populations. Furthermore, I by no way advocate the
current WISC or Stanford-Binet tests as the best examples of how to measure
people's intelligence in an unbiased manner, but once again both of these
instruments do provide scientific measures of our intellectual abilities.
Also, if we as a society would like to provide social services for people in
unfortunate circumstances; I for one (as a taxpayer) would like to have a
scientific method included as part of the process for measuring the specifics
of why one person's circumstances qualify them for services and why another
person does not.
Eric
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