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	This is not an EQ test but interesting background reading about the use of statistics, particularly in regards to intelligence testing. Sponsored Links:
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Title:	'intelligence': misuse and abuse of statistics - abelard
Description:	The misuse and abuse of statistics. The generalised tool of statistics is widely mis-applied to individual cases and decisions, a process that varies somewhere between fraught and outrageous.
Category:	Twin - Science - Study - Standard - Genetics - Bell - Culture - Scale - Color - Normal - Intelligence - Colour - Race - Genes - Statistics - Behaviour - Correlation - Average - Paradigm - Logic - Curve - Deviation - Error - Figures - Abuse - Quotient - I.q. - Racism - Twins - S.d. - Misuse - Misinformation

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