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To: RON BL who wrote (22988)	7/15/1999 12:39:00 AM
From: RLGough	Respond to of 27307

Ron: Interesting thoughts, I'm not sure I understand completely though. We're making an assumption that the company asking one to be CEO is seeking someone that can do the job, not necessarily understand the norms -- right? I would think that's what one would want...? Although, I would agree that knowledge of the norms is critical -- I would argue that it is not necessary. Neither do I understand the portion about "failing any objective test but then be asked to be placed in charge..." Again, wouldn't one want to test something relevant to the task being charged, not some ad-hoc collection of cultural trivia? Asian, Black, Caucasion, Hispanic, et. al. race is not the deciding factor -- the racially biased nature of the IQ testing process has to do with a set of cultural ideas that a "westerner should know" -- if someone is living in the "western world" and has been exposed to these certain ideals, then they presumably will score higher on the test that rates how much exposure they have had to these things -- If they have not been exposed to these things by living outside the sphere of cultural influence then you are asking them to know things they have never been exposed to and using that as an indicator of their intelligence. The bottom line is that it doesn't really measure what someone is capable of doing, it just measures what a person has been exposed to in the confines of a set of very limited perameters. If one really wants to improve "test scores" read E.D.Hirsch sometime. He wrote a bit about "Cultural Literacy" and what "Americans" should know -- culturally specific IQ testing material. Again, I apologize for a bit of non-YHOO banter.