Word: iq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Food for a Spider. Lee never panicked. An astute (IQ: 140) watcher of cowboy and adventure TV shows, he peered through the holes in the trunk, made mental notes of the car's movements. For three nights the boy and his kidnaper slept in the car. Each morning the two drove into the back country west of Everett. They spent their days in the woods happily engrossed in nature study, fed small spiders to big spiders ("The big spiders would grab the little ones and roll them up in a ball. Bob said that was for their winter food...
...thought it would be the humane action to send me to some special school equipped to handle backward brats. Whatever they may have privately felt, my family as a whole took official umbrage, and pronto packed me off to a psychiatric study clinic where I had my IQ inspected. I enjoyed it thoroughly and-guess what?-came home a genius, so proclaimed by science. My former teachers refused to believe it; as for me, I was exceedingly pleased, and went around staring at myself in mirrors and sucking in my cheeks...
Opportunity with Responsibility. In framing a new philosophy of education, the U.S. should not rely primarily on liberal arts professors, few of whom "have ever faced the problem of providing a proper education for a fourth-grader with an IQ of 80." Nor should the nation lean on the educationists, for most of them are not the sort of educational philosophers that are needed. Just where such philosophers would come from no one can say, but, says Woodring, the people themselves "have developed their own unique view of the role of the schools." Though never stated in any complete...
...appalled to learn of the outrageous use of psychometric tests made by a Maryland social service agency. Granted that the test is valid (which is quite a concession for the age of 2½), this cult of intelligence worshipers seems so bedazzled by a high IQ that it overlooks the fact that rearing a brilliant child without siblings (even though less bright) will not prepare the child for life in a world full of intelligent people. The agency perhaps does not realize that overprotection can be as injurious as rejection...
...manpower.* Selective Service law requires that all men scoring ten points (approximately equal to fourth grade) or higher on mental tests must be accepted for induction. During the first five months of 1957, some 38% of the Army's inductees were in the lower intelligence brackets (85-95 IQ), partly because students usually get automatic deferments through college and professional school, often miss the draft altogether. To upgrade its manpower, the Army has drastically tightened re-enlistment standards, tried hard to retrain its misfits the world over. Moreover, the Pentagon is readying legislation for Congress ensuring that only those...