Originally named the Dove Counterbalance General Intelligence Test, the Chitling Test Created by Adrian Dove State employment officer at the Watts State Employment Service office in Watts, California (1966). Published in Jet magazine Feb. 9 1967 it was designed to demonstrate differences in understanding and culture between races, specifically between
African Americans
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and
Whites
White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European origin, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view.
Description of populations as " ...
.
[Hoffarth, G. (2006). Education and Religion in Dominant-Minority Relations. In ''Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity''. Retrieved December 5, 2012, fro]
There have been no studies demonstrating if the Chitling Test has
Validity (logic), validity in determining how streetwise someone is. Furthermore, the Chitling Test has only proved valid as far as
face validity Face validity is the extent to which a test is subjectively viewed as covering the concept it purports to measure. It refers to the transparency or relevance of a test as it appears to test participants. In other words, a test can be said to have f ...
is concerned; no evidence has been brought to light on the Chitling predicting performance.
History
There has been and there continues to be much debate on the issue of
race and intelligence
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. The reason for the development of the Chitling Test was to show that blacks and whites are fundamentally opposed in their manner of speech.
[ Some believe that many modern day tests are racially unfair and play to the advantage of the middle class, white population. The Chitling Test showed that black vernacular and ]culture
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tyl ...
are different and that blacks, on average, scored higher on this test.
Sample of questions
What follows is two examples from Adrian Dove's 1971 short version of the Chitling Test:[Dove, A. (1971). The Chitling Test. In Psychlotron. Retrieved December 5, 2012, from http://psychlotron.org.uk/resources/issues/A2_AQA_issues_chitlingtest.pdf.]
A "gas head" is a person who has a:
(a) fast-moving car,
(b) stable of "lace,"
(c) "process,"
(d) habit of stealing cars,
(e) long jail record for arson.
Cheap chitlings (not the kind you purchase at a frozen food counter) will taste rubbery unless they are cooked long enough. How soon can you quit cooking them to eat and enjoy them?
(a) 45 minutes,
(b) 2 hours,
(c) 24 hours,
(d) 1 week (on a low flame),
(e) 1 hour.
See also
* Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity
*Black culture Black culture refers to:
* Culture of Africa
* African-American culture
* The culture of black communities in other parts of the world, see Black people
See also
* Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center for Resear ...
*African American Vernacular English
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE, ), also referred to as Black (Vernacular) English, Black English Vernacular, or occasionally Ebonics (a colloquial, controversial term), is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban ...
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African-American cultural history
Race and intelligence controversy
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