While I will skip the flame about the discrimination which I have
experienced as a pwd, the LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, GRE, MAT, SAT, etc. are *not*
IQ tests. They also are critiqued as being white, middle class, Western
tests, but they never were presented as IQ tests. They are achievement
based tests purporting to measure how much of a body of knowledge one has
mastered regardless of age. Maybe Sarah would want to do the critique as
her dissertation? David
David Pfeiffer wrote earlier:
> >We do not need a disability based critique of IQ tests. They are clearly
> >based on middle class, white, Western, male values. There is sufficient
> >literature for us not to bother to do it, but it would make a great
> >dissertation.....David
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Sarah L. Triano wrote:
> Given the fact that thousands of promising young adults with disabilities
> (such as myself) have been systematically screened out of several
> professions (law, medicine, etc) because we were unfairly denied
> accommodations for standardized "IQ" exams (like the LSAT, MCAT, etc), I
> think the need for a disability based critique is quite apparent. Anyone
> who would say otherwise has obviously not experienced this kind of
> discrimination first hand.
>
> Not only are these exams inherently discriminatory in their design,
> discrimination also exists in the implementation phase (in deciding who
> gets to take the exams in the first place).
>
> Sarah
> PhD Student, Disability Studies
> Department of Disability and Human Development
> University of Illinois at Chicago
>
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