Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...connected with or unrelated to his field, that not even his tutor knows about. Perhaps his tutor doesn't know him, as is usually the case with mathematicians. On the other hand perhaps he studies nothing but Serbo-Croatian, his major, all day and all night and has an IQ...
Britain's "eleven-plus exam," an IQ measurement plus tests in arithmetic and English composition, was set up in 1944 as the fairest way to channel children into state secondary schools geared to their abilities. But it has turned out to be the infamous instru ment that with dread finality determines whether a child aged 10½ to 11½ is to be high or low in Britain's totemistic society, whether he gets topflight pre-university training or a quick go at a lesser school...
...genetic consequence, reports Physicist John R. Platt in the University of Chicago magazine Context, is a zooming output of high-IQ children. "These marriages are now producing five or ten times the total number of 150s, for example, that we would get from perfectly random marriages in the normal population," where IQ averages...
...nearby mostly white schools, so that all children of some elementary grades attend one school and all children of other elementary grades attend another. Moreover, it envisions smaller classes, more Negro teachers, more pre-school instruction to give Negro children a better start, and an end to culture-biased IQ tests and to the short class days caused by multiple sessions. In short, it will put New York ahead of any other major city...
Summer and fall babies do better in school, probably because they have a general health advantage. Children taught two languages from the start are handicapped in both. Although IQ scores partly reflect cultural influence, and to that degree can be raised by training, they usually remain quite stable after the age of six or seven. Intelligence is mostly inherited; the problem is spurring a child to use all he has. - Highly creative work is produced early in life-typically...