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...MENTALLY RETARDED especially, this change in terminology means a vast change in philosophy. "Under the old system, retarded children were classified as either trainable or educable according to their IQ's," Kaufmann said. "However, that left a vast body of children who were called either ineducable or untrainable, and for whom nothing was done...
Just about the only area where they had not made much progress was sex. Oh, it had been tried. There was that scheme in 1980 under which each family in Europe was to be allocated permits for a certain number of children, and which compelled everyone with an IQ of less than 100 to be sterilized. The IQ tests, of course, were to be administered by computers. There had been an enormous row about it in the European Parliament, and the proposal had been only narrowly defeated...
Jencks also states in Inequality that IQ scores, genes and the quality of school education have little effect on the future economic success of individuals...
...home by Pediatrician David Haskin. Hours later, Kelly was rushed back to the hospital, too late. Clotting blood from an artery severed by a skull fracture had put too much pressure on his brain stem. He was permanently paralyzed from the neck down and was also left mute. His IQ of 140 was not seriously affected, and he now communicates by flicking his eyes-left for yes, right for no, up and down for "I don't know." But he will need round-the-clock attendants for the rest of his life. Told of the 13-year...
Kangas found an unexpected variation between IQ changes in men and women: among men, those with the highest IQs as children showed the greatest increase in IQ scores as adults. But among women, those who were brightest as youngsters made the smallest gains in adulthood. Most of the female subjects were housewives or held undemanding jobs, while all of the males had stimulating careers. For this reason, Kangas attributes the male-female IQ differences to his subjects' jobs-or lack of them. Though he admits that he cannot prove it, he theorizes that performing menial tasks may not only...