Word: iq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living in or around New Haven. The youngsters, no delinquents, came from average middle-class or professional homes, were subject to no extraordinary pressures or handicaps beyond those involved in just growing up. In the institute's two rambling buildings, the Gesell staff gave them a battery of IQ, aptitude, physical and psychological tests. But Gesell relied mostly on interviews, not only with the children but with their parents, probed into everything-from the way a child might wriggle to his attitude towards God. The result: a readable and useful chronicle of the normal growing pains of what...
...Carl Richard Soderberg, Caltech's Physicist and Mathematician Robert F. Bacher, M.I.T.'s Gordon S. Brown (electrical engineering). Almost without exception M.I.T. and Caltech freshmen are the scholastic cream skimmed off the top 10% of national high school enrollment. "It's the rare Caltech student whose IQ falls below 130," explained Psychologist Weir. "The average is somewhere around 140." (A classification amounting to "very superior.") To single out the elite of this exceptional group, M.I.T. and Caltech are looking for something beyond pure IQ. They want, said M.I.T. Vice President Jtflius Stratton, "boys with the passionate interest...
...riding the dumb catcher suddenly expose hidden reserves of tenderness and simple decency. There is one bad apple, and that is Katie, the beautiful prostitute with whom Catcher Bruce is in love. Unlike the cliche harlot of fiction, she is as short of compassion as Bruce is of IQ. Only when she learns that he is dying will she agree to marry him, and then only on condition that she become the beneficiary of Bruce's insurance policy. As the catcher's insurance agent as well as his friend (Wiggen's off-season job is selling policies...
Iowa has, however, a program which attempts to eliminate these inadequacies. By administering IQ tests from first grade on, and comparing scores with classroom achievements, the educators can discover the student who is unmotivated. While IQ tests are very imperfect measures of ability, they can show who has ability and is not working...
...given, but counsellors could be given information with which to make rough guesses. Colleges have been justifiably hesitant in releasing statistics, feeling that they would lead to a stereotyped student, discouraging diverse applications. But they could release figures in percentiles, showing 33 percent of the students have IQ's below 80, 98 percent are on scholarship, 13 percent are sons of alumni, 98 percent live in Tuscaloosa, and none play football. This is surely better than allowing students to pick the wrong college, leaving voluntarily or otherwise after two months, or even more dangerous, letting misleading cliches like "paradise...