Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonsensical crusades ("Oh, never have we ever been on such a trip as this/ We're headed for Flumdiddle, but/ We don't know where it is"), this time accompanied by titled tin pans, AWOL toy soldiers, and that masterly comic creation The Hen With the Low IQ...
...Gandin counters, "I don't think that because a man has a low IQ he'll make a better truck driver." He rejected the contention that the talents of high-IQ men might be better employed than in driving trucks. Since the tightening of mental requirements, he added, the Army has had less "trouble" with...
...These questions are not meant to imply that an individual with a high IQ is any more -- or less -- likely than an individual with an average or low IQ to be unable or unattractive or physically uncoordinated or have a bad character or a high feminine component. . . (But) there is a some profane amateur opinion that the percentage of bearded types tend to go up with the increase in the average IQ. And anyone who has survived the feline atmosphere of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter meeting when the Junior Eight or the Senior Sixteen were being chosen must have...
Unlike Zooey and the rest, Sonny was anything but a Quiz Kid. His grades at public schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side were mostly Bs, but arithmetic baffled him. His IQ test score was merely average at 104, and his deportment was sometimes poor. The tall, skinny boy had a better time of it at Camp Wigwam in Harrison, Me., where, at eleven, he played a fair game of tennis, made friends readily, and was voted "the most popular actor...
...book contains a lot of questionable theory. Mayer has a good point when he says that IQ tests and classroom techniques are biased in favor of middle-class children, but he goes 'way too far. Among Mayer's "middle-class values" are order, cleanliness, neatness, and democracy--a somewhat narrow view...