Editing Arthur Jensen (section)

=== ''Bias in Mental Testing'' ===
''[[Bias in Mental Testing]]'' (1980) is a book examining the question of test bias in commonly used [[standardized test]]s. The book runs almost 800 pages and has been called "exhaustive" by three researchers who reviewed the field 19 years after the book's publication.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Brown|first1=Robert T.|last2=Reynolds|first2=Cecil R.|last3=Whitaker|first3=Jean S.|s2cid=46561407|title=Bias in mental testing since Bias in Mental Testing.|journal=School Psychology Quarterly|volume=14|issue=3|pages=208–238|doi=10.1037/h0089007|year=1999}}</ref> It reviewed in detail the available evidence about [[Intelligence quotient#Test bias|test bias]] across major US racial/ethnic groups. Jensen concluded that "the currently most widely used standardized tests of mental ability -- IQ, scholastic aptitude, and achievement tests -- are, by and large, not biased against any of the native-born English-speaking minority groups on which the amount of research evidence is sufficient for an objective determination of bias, if the tests were in fact biased. For most nonverbal standardized tests, this generalization is not limited to English-speaking minorities." (p. ix). Jensen also published a summary of the book the same year which was a target article in the journal ''[[Behavioral and Brain Sciences]]'' to which 27 commentaries were printed along with the author's reply.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1017/s0140525x00005161 |title=Précis of Bias in Mental Testing |journal=Behavioral and Brain Sciences |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=325–333 |year=1980 |last1=Jensen |first1=Arthur R. |s2cid=145366637 }}</ref>