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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. Members of the inferior group were always compared with ________ children.
(a) black
(b) young
(c) Indian
(d) white

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

3. Craniometry is used for the _______ status of the people ranked at the bottom of the hierarchy.
(a) inferior
(b) racial
(c) educational
(d) intelligence

4. The answer to #48 also tried to show the entities with a higher ranking had to repeat the _________ of those with lower ranking.
(a) illnesses
(b) work
(c) education
(d) growth stages

5. Cesare Lombroso thought that ____________ behavior is hereditary.
(a) political
(b) sexual
(c) criminal
(d) social

Short Answer Questions

1. The answer to #142 indicates how much of a change there is in one variable due to a change in __________.

2. When Burt's sample increased, his correlation between pairs for IQ _________.

3. Factor analysis was the _________ technique to be used in intelligence testing, even thought Burt went about it the wrong way.

4. Did a desire for ______ lead to the questions and data to support a predetermined conclusion?

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

(see the answer key)

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