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- catalog abstract "This book is about how our addiction to testing influences both society and ourselves as socially defined persons. The analysis focuses on tests of people, particularly tests in schools, intelligence tests, vocational interest tests, lie detection, integrity tests, and drug tests. Diagnostic psychiatric tests and medical tests are included only tangentially. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b4065215.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "1: Introduction: Infinite Examination -- pt. I: Authenticity Tests. 2: Before Science: The Early History of Authenticity Testing. 3: Lie Detection. 4: No Sanctuary. 5: Testing and the War on Drugs. 6: From Drug Control to Mind Control -- pt. II: Qualifying Tests. 7: The Forest of Pencils. 8: Willing, Ready, and Able: Vocational Testing. 9: "Artificial" Intelligence. 10: Conclusion: Man the Measured -- Appendix: Drug Testing Tables.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This book is about how our addiction to testing influences both society and ourselves as socially defined persons. The analysis focuses on tests of people, particularly tests in schools, intelligence tests, vocational interest tests, lie detection, integrity tests, and drug tests. Diagnostic psychiatric tests and medical tests are included only tangentially. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog extent "ix, 378 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520080602 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "150/.28/7 20".
- catalog subject "BF697.5.S43 H365 1993".
- catalog subject "Examinations History.".
- catalog subject "Examinations Social aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Examinations United States Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Self-perception Social aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Social control.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1: Introduction: Infinite Examination -- pt. I: Authenticity Tests. 2: Before Science: The Early History of Authenticity Testing. 3: Lie Detection. 4: No Sanctuary. 5: Testing and the War on Drugs. 6: From Drug Control to Mind Control -- pt. II: Qualifying Tests. 7: The Forest of Pencils. 8: Willing, Ready, and Able: Vocational Testing. 9: "Artificial" Intelligence. 10: Conclusion: Man the Measured -- Appendix: Drug Testing Tables.".
- catalog title "Testing testing : social consequences of the examined life / F. Allan Hanson.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".