Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treat the individual as an individual here and now, and ignore the existence of groups as groups?--if we treat persons strictly according to their merits, as J.G. suggests? We establish a heirarchy of society from "scientist" to "drunkard" (as if no scientists were also alcoholics!) and the IQ test becomes our new Bill of Rights. For the lucky few in Harvard this attitude may seem entirely proper, as long as they stay around the Square and don't wander into the shabby area a few blocks below Dunster House. Since we are judging the individual on his merits...
...Plus IQ. City and Country owes its existence to Adolf Hitler. In 1936, the Nazis chased out Roeper's father...
...onetime country estate with a 28-room mansion, the school now draws kids from all kinds of homes-not only the bright children of Bloomfield Hills auto executives but also such "finds" as a nine-year-old Detroit Negro girl with jobless parents and an IQ of 170. Typically, her public school called on the Roepers for help; her neighbors passed the hat for tuition (which runs from $600 to $800 a year). Wealthy parents sponsor many other such kids. A brotherhood of brains unites them all-the measure of which is that only 87 out of 420 bright applicants...
David (Keir Dullea) is a 17-year-old boy with a high IQ and an obsessive-compulsive neurosis. He lives in morbid horror of dirt, in insane ambition to stop time and so cheat death, in panic dread that someday someone may touch him-"because a touch can kill." Lisa (Janet Margolin) is a 15-year-old girl with soft brown eyes and schizophrenia. She is split into two well-defined personalities. As Lisa she is a silly four-year-old who talks all the time but only in a "word salad" seasoned with rhyme...
...British magazine Nature, Hudson reports on results he got from tests based on the creativity theories of University of Chicago Psychologists Jacob W. Getzels and Philip W. Jackson (TIME, Oct. 31, 1960). They put forward the now respected idea that a high IQ is not a reliable sign of "giftedness." may simply indicate "convergent" thinking, or mental grey-flannelism. Truly creative children, they say, are "divergent" types who tend to find IQ tests boring, do not readily accept the "right" answer as the right one. Seeking a better gauge than IQ, the Chicago team devised various tests to spot divergents...