Word: iq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Psychologist Moshe Smilansky of the Szold Institute for Child and Youth Wel fare, "just can't compete. The cultural patterns of his home don't give him a chance. My son was in a mixed school for a time. The average IQ of the Europeans in his class was 125, but the average of the class was only 85." Meanwhile, other adults have suggested revising present courses. Says Sociologist Dinah Feitel-sohn: "Our reading primers are just silly for Oriental children. The pictures show typical European families. The stories are frequently about life in East European villages...
Sixth to Ninth. Without clear precedents to guide them, St. Louis educators arbitrarily set an IQ of 130 (very superior) as the dividing line between the average and the gifted student. Candidates for the special classes were identified by means of IQ tests given to all children in fourth grade. Those who scored no or better were given additional IQ tests shortly before they were due to enter sixth grade, assigned to nine special classrooms strategically scattered throughout the school system if they scored 130 or above on the latter tests and proved "socially adjusted." In the special classrooms they...
Zippers & Telephones. The wider interests of the Lancet's current editor, Dr. T. F. Fox−a medical-school graduate but never a practicing physician−are reflected in such salty recent discussions as the effects of contraception on the national IQ, the dangers of infection from public telephones and the obsoleteness of bedpans (the Lancet favors mobile bedside commodes). In essays from subscribers ("Peripatetic Correspondents"), the Lancet is likely to wander into even more esoteric fields. Recent correspondents discussed jammed zippers on men's trousers, the moral rights of physicians to evade traffic rules, the hazards...
...esoteric, and often vague, tangents ("Families showing six-toedness as a recessive trait are a good rule-proving exception"). In a tone of things-I-never-knew-till-now, he announces several latter-day commonplaces, such as 1) under equal environmental advantages, Negroes stack up well with whites in IQ tests, 2) Negroes have no unique odor of their own, 3) Africa is a racial crazy quilt, and the modern American Negro is no more closely related to his African ancestors than a modern Greek is to an ancient Greek, 4) all blood is red, and it is uniform except...
...Storz in six years has run a $20,000 investment of his own, plus $30,000 from his father, into a $2,500,000 network. Last week, in his biggest deal to date, he paid $850,000 for Miami's WQAM and prepared to test Florida's IQ...