Testing Testing Social Consequences of the Examined Life.

This book is about how our addiction to testing influences both society and ourselves as socially defined persons. The analysis focuses on tests of people, particularly tests in schools, intelligence tests, vocational interest tests, lie detection, integrity tests, and drug tests. Diagnostic psychia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hanson, F. Allan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2020.
Temas:
Self-perception > Social aspects > United States.
Examinations > United States > Psychological aspects.
Examinations > Social aspects > United States.
Examinations > History.
Social control.
Examinations.
Examinations > Psychological aspects.
Examinations > Social aspects.
Self-perception > Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. INTRODUCTION: INFINITE EXAMINATION
  • I. AUTHENTICITY TESTS
  • 2. BEFORE SCIENCE: THE EARLY HISTORY OF AUTHENTICITY TESTING
  • 3. LIE DETECTION
  • 4. NO SANCTUARY
  • 5. TESTING AND THE WAR ON DRUGS
  • 6. FROM DRUG CONTROL TO MIND CONTROL
  • II. QUALIFYING TESTS
  • 7. THE FOREST OF PENCILS
  • 8. WILLING, READY, AND ABLE: VOCATIONAL TESTING
  • 9. ""ARTIFICIAL."" INTELLIGENCE
  • 10. CONCLUSION: MAN THE MEASURED
  • APPENDIX: DRUG-TEST I IMG TABLES
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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