This is a provocative look at the history, politics, and perils of intelligence testing. Despite well documented shortcomings and a controversial history, intelligence tests continue to be used widely in schools, in the workplace, and even in the courtroom. Combining excellent scholarship with highly readable prose, "IQ" tells the fascinating story of intelligence testing from its origins to the present. Psychologists' claims that they could measure intelligence created opportunities for them, but in the process, their inexact tool has caused millions of people to suffer unnecessarily. "IQ" reveals testing's wide ranging and powerful impact on public policy and private lives, from forced sterilization in the United States to horrors in Nazi Germany to the annual angst of high school SAT takers. Ultimately, Murdoch argues that we need a whole new model for intelligence rating. Stephen Murdoch (Santa Barbara, CA) is a freelance journalist who has written for the "Washington Post", the "Boston Globe", and "Newsweek", among other publications.

斯蒂芬·默多剋(Stephen Mu rdoch)的寫作生涯始於1999年。多年以來，他一直為《新聞周刊》、《華盛頓郵報》、《波士頓環球報》等著名報刊和廣播電颱供稿，內容涉及法律、政策、心理學、旅遊等。《智商測試》是他的第一本書。