Testing Testing
Social Consequences of the Examined Life
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1992
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-08060-7 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-08060-7 (ISBN)
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The author issues a warning against the American predilection towards testing, questioning what happens to intelligence, character, aptitudes and behavioural traits when subjected to the constant barrage of tests provided by schools, businesses, psychologists and law enforcement.
"America is awash in tests", says Allan Hanson. "In a very real sense, tests have invented all of us". This challenge to what might be called an American addiction is both an expose and a warning. From childhood on, Hanson points out, Americans are subjected to one test after another. What happens as their intelligence, character, aptitudes and behavioural traits are constantly probed and weighed? How is the information used, and how are people defined by their test results? These are some of the questions Hanson explores, noting that although societies have always had institutions that define and control their members, testing is unique. It provides more knowledge about individuals than has ever been available before. "They", the testers - schools, employers and law enforcement agencies, for example - have nearly god-like status. The author explores what can be done to control them.
"America is awash in tests", says Allan Hanson. "In a very real sense, tests have invented all of us". This challenge to what might be called an American addiction is both an expose and a warning. From childhood on, Hanson points out, Americans are subjected to one test after another. What happens as their intelligence, character, aptitudes and behavioural traits are constantly probed and weighed? How is the information used, and how are people defined by their test results? These are some of the questions Hanson explores, noting that although societies have always had institutions that define and control their members, testing is unique. It provides more knowledge about individuals than has ever been available before. "They", the testers - schools, employers and law enforcement agencies, for example - have nearly god-like status. The author explores what can be done to control them.
F. Allan Hanson is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas. His previous books include Meaning in Culture (1980), Studies in Symbolism and Cultural Communication (1982), and, with Louise Hanson, Counterpoint in Maori Culture (1983).
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Infinite Examination PART 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 PART 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 Testing Tables Notes References Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.3.1992 |
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Verlagsort | Berkerley |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 499 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-520-08060-2 / 0520080602 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-08060-7 / 9780520080607 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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