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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. In a factor analysis graph, the two vectors lie ___________.
(a) away from each other
(b) One on top of the other
(c) close to each other
(d) on opposite sides of the graph

2. Which race was ranked last in the eyes of the practitioners of racial ranking?
(a) Indians
(b) Chinese
(c) Blacks
(d) Whites

3. How many reasons did Burt feel could be used for discounting the effects of environment?
(a) 1
(b) 4
(c) 2
(d) 3

4. Factor analysis was the _________ technique to be used in intelligence testing, even thought Burt went about it the wrong way.
(a) easiest
(b) best
(c) worst
(d) only

5. Louis from #55 believed that there were different centers of _________.
(a) creation
(b) life
(c) possibility
(d) races

Short Answer Questions

1. Gould thought that Eysenck's arguments were the result of __________ correlations.

2. Gould wants to know if science added the ___________ data, or......

3. "[T]he child represents a ____________ adult ancestor."

4. Craniometry is used for the _______ status of the people ranked at the bottom of the hierarchy.

5. "An anatomical theory for ranking __________ - based on entire bodies, not only on heads, - had been found."

(see the answer key)

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