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Peer reviewedConnors, John B. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Reviews controversies over intelligence and intelligence testing, focusing on impacts on Canadian society in the past century. Discusses eugenics movements and related immigration policies. Suggests that both "tails" of "The Bell Curve" (cognitive elite and underclass) are influenced by inaccurate methods, and that the middle…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Immigrants, Intelligence, Intelligence Differences
