Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marylie Roy, 17, appeared amply qualified to enter the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She was a high school graduate and had an IQ rating of 137 (in the top 2%). But last week the frail, bright girl pondered bitter news. Not only is she unqualified for U.B.C., but if she wants to continue her education, she must start over again in the tenth grade...
...abandoned child,Alice Marie has lived with the Combses since the age of ten months. Though the Combses agreed not to attempt adopting her, they found the quick, eager girl hard to resist. At two, she recited nursery rhymes. At 2½ she was put to an IQ test, won a mark of 138-in the "very superior," top 2% of the nation. "An endearing and charming youngster," reported the examining psychologist. He prescribed immediate adoption by a family with "a wealthy educational environment...
Today, formal college preparation should begin by twelve at the latest. If a child has an IQ below 110, his parents may wish to take him out of the race (90% of college students have higher IQs). But a college-capable child, most educators agree, should begin focusing on his goal in the eighth grade. This is none too soon to visit campuses, and none too soon for an instructive glance at application blanks. Typical question: "If you have not studied all of these subjects, how and when are you planning to make up deficiencies...
...perversion against each of them, and the attempted rape of one of them-"indescribable crimes," as the Los Angeles Times put it last week, whose "horrible details lie in the decent exclusiveness of the court records." Clearly no ordinary criminal, Caryl Chessman, grade-school educated, had an IQ of 136, and he argued his own case creditably in court. Nonetheless, he was convicted by a jury under California's "Little Lindbergh Law" (which, like the federal "Lindbergh Law," makes kidnaping with bodily harm a capital offense) and sentenced to die. It was after he was condemned that he began...