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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Real Error of Cyril Burt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. No matter how strong a correlation is, it says nothing about _________.
(a) plausibility
(b) cause
(c) intelligence
(d) race

2. When Burt's sample increased, his correlation between pairs for IQ _________.
(a) was scattered on the graphs
(b) remained unchanged
(c) increased
(d) decreased

3. Leaders of the eighteenth and nineteenth century did not dispute __________.
(a) medical findings
(b) scientists in general
(c) racial ranking
(d) scientific errors

4. What outside factors are being alluded to in #151?
(a) Mental
(b) Physical
(c) Sociological
(d) Environmental

5. "[T]he child represents a ____________ adult ancestor."
(a) unique
(b) comparable
(c) primitive
(d) younger

Short Answer Questions

1. The answer to #48 also said that adult blacks were like _______________.

2. The answer to #93 caused a slowdown in ____________, leading to inferiority.

3. Spearman found that intelligence is a ____________ thing.

4. Havelock found that _________ males were more effeminate.

5. Eysenck noticed that the average ________ of whites exceeds that of blacks.

(see the answer key)

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