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doppelganglander5/29/2009 1:57:52 pm PDT

re: #131 zombie

That was a different test — the one I’m thinking of was in the ’80s, I believe. The infamous “BITCH-100 test” in your link was nothing but pure cultural bias rendered in test form — quite the opposite of the way standardized tests are designed, in which bias, if any, is very subtle and hard to pinpoint. The BITCH-100 test asked things about James Brown and chitlin’s and stuff like that. More of a joke to prove a point rather than an actual test.

Wikipedia had a link to the Chitling Test of Intelligence. It’s clearly a test of knowledge, not intelligence. It proves nothing except that the designer didn’t know the difference between an intelligence test and a test of knowledge. (I actually knew some of the answers even though I’m white as paper. Also, the last question does not provide the correct answer among the choices.)