Word: iq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study promises another battle over race and IQ...
...heavy viewers are more fearful, anxious and suspicious of the world than "light" viewers. Significantly more of them replied "almost always" when asked, "How often is it all right to hit someone if you're mad at them?" As to reading, Gross says, "except occasionally for the lowest IQ group who do a little better if they watch TV -because they see some printed words at least-for most children the more television the worse they do in school...
Your article tends to perpetuate the questionable notion that a high IQ is synonymous with giftedness. It only tells us that a person has the potential for gifted behavior, but unless intelligence is combined with creativity and commitment, and shows up in performance, we have no rationale for assuming that a child is gifted...
...just a black man to them who doesn't know how to be subservient. I'm a big black man with an IQ of 160 making $700,000 a year, and they treat me like dirt...
...behavior problem"-a disobedient pupil who did shoddy work. But after his third-grade teacher told the Irwins that their son had a "learning disability," they hired an educational psychologist who tested Tommy. The conclusion: Tommy was not too slow but too quick for the classroom routine. His IQ was a very elevated 169. "He was frustrated and bored to tears," observes his father, Attorney Ronald Irwin. Now the Irwins are suing Illinois' McHenry County School District for damages of $1 million, seeking a legal precedent that would compel increased education spending for the gifted...