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Annotating a Bibliography

The paragraph below comes from Stephen Jay Gould’s book The Mismeasure of Man. Assume that you want to use the material in this paragraph in a psychology paper about the usefulness of IQ tests. Under the paragraph is an excerpt from an annotated bibliography for this assignment. Read the annotated bibliography, and then create your own entry for the Gould source. Fill in the textbox with a summary of the paragraph, highlighting the information that you might use in a paper. Don’t forget to evaluate the source, and include your reaction and analysis of the paragraph. If one particular sentence stands out as a valuable quote, you can include that—in quotation marks—as well.

Gould, S. J. (1996). The mismeasure of man (p. 386). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.

Binet explicitly denied that his test—later called an intelligence quotient (or IQ) when the German psychologist W. Stern scored the results by dividing “mental age” (as ascertained on the test) by chronological age—could be measuring an internal biological property worthy of the name “general intelligence.” First of all, Binet believed that the complex and multifarious property called intelligence could not, in principle, be captured by a single number capable of ranking children in a linear hierarchy. He wrote in 1905:

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Annotated Bibliography

American Psychological Association. (2003, February) Intelligent intelligence testing. Monitor on Psychology, 34 (2). Retrieved from www.apa.org/monitor/feb03/intelligent.aspx.

APA is a trusted source, and this was in a peer-reviewed journal, so it is an authoritative source. It explores the history of IQ tests and the equally long history of attempts to prove and disprove their value.

Sloman, S. & Fernbach, P. (2017). The knowledge illusion: Why we never think alone. New York, NY: Riverhead Books.

Sloman and Fernbach discuss how the mind works. This source was really easy to understand and makes some good points that will help support that IQ tests aren’t enough.

Gould, S. J. (1996). The mismeasure of man (p. 386). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.

Question

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A good entry in an annotated bibliography should start with the full citation of the source, then give a summary of the source and ideas about how you might use it in your writing project. Here’s a sample annotation for the excerpt provided here:
Gould argues forcefully against IQ testing as a meaningful measure of intelligence. In this passage, he quotes the IQ test’s own creator, who explicitly denied that the rating could be used to measure intelligence. As an academic authority, Gould offers good counter-arguments to those who claim that intelligence is linked to race and class.