The nineteenth-century English scientist Sir Francis Galton believed that
a. mental abilities cannot be measured.
b. superior intelligence is biologically inherited.
c. academic aptitude is detectable through factor analysis.
d. intelligence test performance depends on motivation rather than ability.
e. emotional intelligence correlated with intrapersonal intelligence.
Ans: b. superior intelligence is biologically inherited.
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