Word: iq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a seven-year test involving 2,400 women and 1,699 children, Columbia University's Dr. Arthur I. Gates showed that the children of low-income families on poorly balanced diets will have higher IQs if their mothers get extra vitamins during pregnancy. But this process cannot be extended to breed a race of geniuses: once a woman is getting a healthful diet, even bucketfuls of added vitamins will have no effect on her child's IQ...
...sign in the Liquor & Tobacco Shop in Moscow [News in Pictures - Oct. IQ] also reads Priem posudy proisvoditsa vo dvore, which, freely translated, means that the "empties are picked up in the backyard...
Reminiscing about his childhood school days, Cohen admits, "I was in a group of boys with exceptionally high IQ's who were chosen to complete their education at Dalton, an ultra-progressive school. Our introduction to progressive education didn't last long, though, because they couldn't hold us down. Anyway, I graduated when I was fifteen...
...most effortless ways of earning money which the Bureau frequently offers is psychological testing. Budding psychologists and social relations centers request students to serve as "guinea pigs" for new IQ Tests...
...project, which will take at least two or three years, was started last November 1. A battery of tests given the students aims at finding out such things as IQ, manual skill, physical characteristics, and psychological attitudes. The tests consist of about 20 hours of interviews and questionnaire answering, but the examinees are paid $25 for their services...