Word: iq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family, Dameron, a city fireman in nearby Washington, D.C., had applied for a boy from Maryland's Montgomery County Social Service League. Then last week the Damerons themselves got a surprise. The agency's answer was no. Reason: Dori, now 2½, has an exceptionally high IQ-147 ("very superior"); to bring a child of average mentality into the family, said the league, would cause hardship for Dori as well as for the baby, whose IQ might be lower...
...Cordiner pay-revision plan for the Army [May 20] or no Cordiner plan; it will still be the joy of the top sergeant (IQ: 50) to give the dirtiest jobs to the man with the most education...
...During the same period the social feeling against "blue-collar" work has increased. Says B. Gordon Funk, industrial arts supervisor for the Los Angeles Board of Education: "Boys and their parents are made to believe in the social necessity of a university education, even though we know that an IQ of no is necessary to succeed in college, and many of those who have it would be happier, and often earn more, in a trade or a technical...
...other hand, the purpose of Generals is to make sure the student reads many books, the questions should be more specific and picayune. It is currently possible to enter General Examinations with Hymarx knowledge and a high IQ, and exit with honors...
Please have pity on the frustration of all the mothers of young intellectuals who combed your Van Doren article for Charles's IQ. What...