Word: iq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealthy, brilliant young law students at the University of Chicago. Straus-Loeb, as portrayed by Bradford Dillman, is the spoiled-rotten son of a socialite mother. At 18, he is already a vicious little sadist. Steiner-Leopold, as Dean Stockwell interprets him, is a motherless young genius whose IQ is too high to be measured by any known intelligence test-essentially a gentle boy who has been completely mesmerized by the animal magnetism of his evil companion. Straus-Loeb is the superman, Steiner-Leopold the "superior slave" in a private world of post-Nietzschean fantasy and homosexual practice...
...only after she washes and feeds eight younger brothers and sisters, and so she is usually late. A Puerto Rican boy, who came to the U.S. in 1956 and speaks only Spanish at home, shyly refused to try his halting English in school, scored a predictable 74 on an IQ test given in the new language...
Consoling as this theory appears, it will not withstand the facts without considerable refinement. Academic study rarely improves scores on IQ tests, syllogistic logic, or any other known measure of effective thinking. Neither does the discipline of studying one field appear to help you enter a new and unrelated field. Historians are no better qualified to draw sensible conclusions about medical evidence than are equally intelligent garage mechanics, and musicians are as baffled as stenographers when confronted with the intricacies of the stock market...
...Results Speak." The infusion of underprivileged Negroes into the all-white school system has brought down the scholastic level (to what the two systems would have been before if averaged together). The national ninth-grade median IQ is 101.5-Washington's is now 94. But while Negroes generally score lower than whites, there has also been consistent progress since integration. Most Negro children, notably the youngest, are advancing each year at the pace regarded as normal for whites. More and more Negroes are also breaking through into the honors classes of many high schools...
...Shifting IQs. Periodic intelligence testing gave parents of dull children the hope that their dimwitted offspring would blossom late; and tests taken throughout life ensured that when IQ went up-or down -jobs changed accordingly. Mere age, of course, commands no respect in a meritocracy; as IQ dips in the fifth or sixth decade of life, Young writes, "the managing director had to become an office mechanic . . . the professor an assistant in the library. There have been judges who have become taxi drivers, bishops curates, and publishers writers...