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A Culture-Free Intelligence Test I

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Psychologists dealing with the application of intelligence tests seem to pass through alternating phases of uncritical overconfidence and cynical despair with regard to the validity of their measurements. To judge by recent utterances the fashionable phase at the moment is disillusionment; the tests do not measure any constant characteristic of the individual, and no two tests measure the same thing.1

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Cattell, R.B. (1973). A Culture-Free Intelligence Test I. In: The Measurement of Intelligence. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6129-9_10

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