Word: iq
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...flaws of any intelligence test is that it does not, and cannot, take into account the mood of the person whose intellect is being evaluated. Educational psychologists have long known that attitude can have a pronounced effect on the score. The same person, retested, may raise or lower his IQ by as many as 20 points depending on how he feels-challenged, anxious, bored. Even his feelings toward the person giving the test can be a factor. In the case of the black student, writes British Psychologist Peter Watson in New Society magazine, this variation is of great significance...
Jumping Jack. The affected children, estimated to number as many as 3,000,000 under 15 in the U.S. today, are not mentally retarded. Most are about average or above in IQ ratings, usually high on verbal skills but lower on muscular coordination tests. It is their achievement quotients that are distressingly low. As many as 70% of the victims are boys; no one knows why. While the children do not all exhibit all the same symptoms, the jumping-jack hyperkinesis is present in at least 80%. Almost invariably there is a passion for handling things, often clumsily so that...
Substantial Refutation. The results have recently been released-and they look impressive. IQ scores for Kottmeyer's fourth graders rose an average of 7.2 points; those for fifth and sixth graders went up 3.5 and 6.0 points. Spelling and reading scores were two to four months ahead of the national norms, and overall school performances were above all expectations...
...Sams-known for much of his life as "Crazy George-" spent three years between 1961 and 1964 in various mental institutions in New York, where he was listed as an "alleged dangerous mental defective." In 1964, he was released after finally achieving a score of 75 on a standard IQ test-five points over the cutoff point for such a case...
...Sams-known for much of his life as "Crazy George" -spent three years between 1961 and 1964 in various mental institutions in New York, where he was listed as an "alleged dangerous mental defective.." In 1964, he was released after finally achieving a score of 75 on a standard IQ test-five points over the cutoff point for such a case...