Word: iq
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...most bizarre tribute to Strenio's anxiety about cultural bias--and his sense of proportion--is his anecdote of a researcher who administered an IQ test to a gorilla on whom she was experimenting. Strenio's concern that the gorilla scored well within the average human range appears reasonable. But his tone does not change as he complains that the animal would have scored even better, had not certain questions (such as "Where should you run for shelter from the rain?") revealed an unmistakeable "cultural bias towards humans...
...that the benefits of high-quality preschool programs can last at least through age 15. That finding was made by Michigan Researchers David P. Weikart, 49, and Lawrence J. Schweinhart, 33, who last week released an interim report on an 18-year study of the progress of 123 low-IQ children at Perry Elementary School in south Ypsilanti, Mich...
Researchers were at first encouraged to find that the preschoolers' IQ scores rose an average of twelve points above those of the control group. But these gains disappeared by the time the children had completed second grade. As they progressed through school, their grades were no better than the control group's. But the preschoolers did continue to score better on reading, arithmetic and language achievement tests. At every grade level tested, the preschool children scored higher than the control group; at age 14, they did better by a margin of 8%, a full grade level...
Earlier this week, he said the part of his report suggesting a relationship between aptitude tests and IQ tests was "a controversial result, and not everyone would agree...
Sociologist Dane Archer cites Dr. Bell's deductive skill as an example of a subtle ability totally different from the verbal and mathematical capacities measured by standard IQ tests. He calls it social intelligence, or the knack of picking up nonverbal signals. In his book How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quotient (M. Evans; $9.95), Archer writes that while a high S.I. helped make Bell a great doctor, today's medical schools, psychiatric institutes and other professional training centers ignore it when picking their students. Says he: "Verbal intelligence has a dismal record for predicting success...