# Psychometrics

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Category: Psychology
Slides: 26
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:06.059Z
Tags: psychology, psychometrics

## Summary

The discipline that asks: when we say someone "has high anxiety" or "an IQ of 120," what does that statement mean, and how would we know if we were wrong? Key sections include: Psycho metrics.; Opening What psychometrics is.; Chapter I The dark origins.; Chapter II The first practical test.; Chapter III Stanford-Binet and Wechsler.; Chapter IV The general factor.; Chapter V IQ has been rising.; Chapter VI The bell-curve controversy.; Chapter VII Stereotype threat.; Chapter VIII Reliability..

## Slide Outline

1. Psycho metrics.
2. Opening What psychometrics is.
3. Chapter I The dark origins.
4. Chapter II The first practical test.
5. Chapter III Stanford-Binet and Wechsler.
6. Chapter IV The general factor.
7. Chapter V IQ has been rising.
8. Chapter VI The bell-curve controversy.
9. Chapter VII Stereotype threat.
10. Chapter VIII Reliability.
11. Chapter IX Validity.
12. Chapter X Factor analysis.
13. Chapter XI Item Response Theory.
14. Chapter XII The MMPI.
15. Chapter XIII NEO and Big Five inventories.
16. Chapter XIV Why the MBTI fails as measurement.
17. Chapter XV The Implicit Association Test.
18. Chapter XVI The polygraph problem.
19. Chapter XVII Test ethics.
20. Chapter XVIII Test fairness across groups.
21. Chapter XIX Measurement from digital traces.
22. Chapter XX What has held up.
23. Chapter XXI Twenty-five works.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII What's next.
26. The end of the deck.

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