Human Growth and Development / Unit 7 HGD 0941 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Cultural Bias in Testing
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The idea
Intelligence tests are criticized for cultural bias, since what counts as adaptive differs between cultures, and familiarity with test content varies.
In practice
Aboriginal Australians relying more on visual strategies in memory tasks, one example of culture shaping problem-solving.
Where people slip
Culture-fair tests, nonverbal ones such as Raven's matrices, reduce language demands but still need cultural adaptation.
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