Date:  Thu, 7 Dec 1995 10:02:10 -0800

From:  Mary Bucholtz <bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU>

Subject: Re: Vocabulary & IQ



>

> Now: what to do about people who are not from the normative population? We

> have a host of "culture-free" tests; I like the Raven Progressive Matrices

> best. Those tests use language-free problems to get at the IQ, and do

> acceptably at getting at IQ potential.



Surely language-free and culture-free are not the same thing. And surely

the whole notion of testing is deeply rooted in culture.



Mary Bucholtz

Department of Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley