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Word: iq (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, Princeton, Yale and a few other selective colleges, administered a written essay examinations. The SAT and the essays coexisted until World War II, when the Board indefinitely discontinued the latter. Educational Testing Service (ETS) officials will account and admit, to their chagrin, the stories related to the first IQ tests, which were designed for the purpose of ethnic exclusion. One run on Ellis Island in 1912 concluded that 83 per cent of Jews, 90 per cent of Hungarians, 79 per cent of Italians, and 87 per cent of Russians were "feebleminded." Other IQ tests showed women to be significantly...

Author: By Marc J. Jenkins, | Title: Testing: Questioning the Standards | 2/27/1980 | See Source »

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