Word: iq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pender County superior court last week, three key prosecution witnesses testified that they had lied at the original trial under pressure from Prosecutor Stroud. The star witness, Allen Hall, a black youth with an IQ of 78 and a long criminal record, swore in confusing testimony that while he was under observation at a mental hospital before the trial, Stroud had promised him a short prison sentence; he said he was coached to insist that he had helped set the grocery ablaze under Chavis' direction. Another witness, then 13 years old, said Stroud gave...
Much of Burt's reputation rested on his prominent role in the debate about heredity and intelligence. His studies of identical twins who grew up apart indicated that heredity-rather than environment-explains most of the differences in IQ scores. But shortly before Burt's death in 1971 at the age of 88, there were academic murmurs that the psychologist's data were suspect. For one thing, the statistical correlation between IQ scores of his identical twins remained the same to the third place after the decimal point as more and more twins were studied-an extraordinary...
...powerful." In fact, he was powerful enough to see his ideas on heredity and intelligence translated into educational policy. As a government adviser in the 1940s, he played a prominent role in setting up the three-tier British school system that pigeonholed students on the basis of an IQ test given at age eleven...
Which candidate enjoys the last laugh next month will probably be determined by which establishes himself as having the higher IQ (independence quotient...
...cities. At Illinois, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Purdue and Wisconsin, more than 50% of the aspiring agriculturists were not raised on farms. Ohio State's William Flinn, a rural sociologist, has devised a test to measure their initial ignorance. He whimsically calls it "The Udder American IQ Test." Sample questions...