At 12:59 PM -0500 3/30/99, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>It is the quintessential Eurocentric scale.
>The data is usually based on norms taken fron the white population.
Of course it is!
The tests were written explicitly to be applied to white populations.
>(why not the Chinese-since they are the majority on the planet?)
No reason the tests couldn't be normed for Han, _if_ someone were
interested in testing that specific population. Of course:
1. Chinese-Americans seem to do quite well on the "European"
normed test.
2. I suspect (someone in psychometrics might confirm this) that
current renorming is done on samples representative of the population
(e.g., the United States) to be assessed.
>
>The measured skills have more to do with Eurocentric academic type of
>activtity.
No question. If you want to assess different skills, write a different test.
>It assumes deficits instead of differences.
What (if anything) does this mean?
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