The Definition of a Profession : the Authority of Metaphor in the History of Intelligence Testing, 1890-1930.
In the early twentieth century, a small group of psychologists built a profession upon the new social technology of intelligence testing. They imagined the human mind as quantifiable, defining their new enterprise through analogies to the better established scientific professions of medicine and eng...
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2001
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