KOMPETENCER OG POTENTIALER I INTELLIGENSFORSKNINGEN

– om diversitet, læring og social retorik

Abstract

The psychological and intellectual diversity in the human race is enormous. This diversity is unfolded as a resultant of heredity and environment. In this decade of biologism you will often meet fear for a dysgenic tendency because of the higher reproduction among the underprivileged with their postulated less valuable genes than the privileged. This postulate has no support in current research. Results are more to the opposite side. The still high popularity in intelligence testing is for no minor part based on social rhetoric for the legitimisation and consolidation of social, economic and educational advantages for the privileged groups.