Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity
The Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity, also known as BITCH-100 or The BITCH Test, is an
Nature of test
The test consisted of a multiple-choice questionnaire in which the examinee was asked to identify the meaning of 100 words as they were then used in black ghettos.[1] Examples of words used included alley apple, black draught, blood, boogie jugie, and boot.[1]
The original sample used in the experiment consisted of 100 white and 100 black St. Louis high school students, aged 16–18 years old – half of them being from low socioeconomic levels and the other half from middle income levels. Williams also had data from two other samples of blacks and whites. These samples included 25 black and 13 white college students from Mississippi and 19 white graduate students from Boston University. Out of the 200 students who participated in the original sample the 100 black students answered 87/100 answers correctly and the whites answered 51/100 questions correctly. In the other samples the results were similar with the black students' scores being drastically different from those of the whites.[2][3]
Interpretation
The results of the test showed that the black group performed much better than the white group.
Both of these tests demonstrate how cultural content on intelligence tests may lead to culturally biased score results. Still, these criticisms of cultural content may not apply to "culture free" tests of intelligence. The BITCH-100 and the
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-306-48431-5.
- ^ a b Matarazzo, J. D., & Wiens, A. N. (1977). Black intelligence test of cultural homogeneity and wechsler adult intelligence scale scores of black and white police applicants. Journal of Applied Psychology, 62(1), 57-63.
- ^ Honolulu, Hawaii.
- ^ Racial Differences on a Black Intelligence Test Journal of Negro Education, 43, 4, 429-436, F 74
- ^ IQ Tests and the Black Culture McNiel, Nathaniel D.
- ^ Assessment in Multicultural Groups: The Role of Acculturation van de Vijver, Fons J.R.; Phalet, Karen from the Special Issue on Advances in Testing Methodology from an International Perspective Applied Psychology. 53(2):215-236, April 2004.
External links
- Online version of the test via The Chitling test!)
- Sample vocabulary items from the test.