What do these intelligence tests mean for immigrants and their children?
Much controversy surround the subject of intelligence. Intelligence tests were developed in late nineteen and early twentieth century to assess the intelligence of individual and groups. However, for some people IQ tests mean an advantage for other mean a disadvantage. This depending on so many factors. When we talk about immigrants my opinion is that it will be very big disadvantage for most of them. On the other hand the situation doesn't seem like this when we talk about their children. A reason for this is consist in three main factors which I will present in this essay, and I will ground on my position with some examples.
First of all, the reason for most adult immigrants to not achieve a good result on their IQ test is the language. While they won't have this problem if they did the test on their native language. This mean that their IQ test won't be real measure of their......
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