Word: benda
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Last Tuesday's Crimson (November 20) featured an article by a Dr. Clemens E. Benda, who was said to be an international authority on mental retardation and child development. He argued that I.Q. tests do not really measure intelligence because intelligence is not "linear;" that I.Q. scores are not fixed throughout life and are anyway meaningless for adults, and, furthermore, that many "enormous contributions" have been made by people who did poorly on I.Q. tests. He claimed to have found "embarrassing" misinformation in my writings; he said that the genetics of human intelligence is not scientifically established; he dismissed...
...Clemens E. Benda is an internationally recognized authority on mental retardation and child development...