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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Real Error of Cyril Burt.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The answer to #142 indicates how much of a change there is in one variable due to a change in __________.
(a) the environment
(b) the weather
(c) another variable
(d) the numbers

2. Gould thought that Eysenck's arguments were the result of __________ correlations.
(a) impossible
(b) irrelevant
(c) radical
(d) non causal

3. Which Socrates work is Gould discussing at the opening of this book?
(a) Phaedo
(b) Euthyphro
(c) Republic
(d) Apology

4. Gould goes on to say that science has not been constrained by _________.
(a) facts
(b) ideas
(c) numbers
(d) data

5. Broca also thought that ________ should be denied the benefits of education due to smaller brains.
(a) leaders
(b) women
(c) elderly people
(d) children

Short Answer Questions

1. The answer to #114 became a way to measure the ___________ of the children, and thus their IQ levels.

2. Where did Francis Galton have a display in 1884?

3. Within what century did science become fascinated with numbers?

4. The answer to #93 caused a slowdown in ____________, leading to inferiority.

5. According to Lombroso, the genes of the past are contained in the hereditary of the individual and the ___________ surfaces at times.

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