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...These questions are not meant to imply that an individual with a high IQ is any more -- or less -- likely than an individual with an average or low IQ to be unable or unattractive or physically uncoordinated or have a bad character or a high feminine component. . . (But) there is a some profane amateur opinion that the percentage of bearded types tend to go up with the increase in the average IQ. And anyone who has survived the feline atmosphere of a Phi Beta Kappa chapter meeting when the Junior Eight or the Senior Sixteen were being chosen must have...
Unlike Zooey and the rest, Sonny was anything but a Quiz Kid. His grades at public schools in Manhattan's Upper West Side were mostly Bs, but arithmetic baffled him. His IQ test score was merely average at 104, and his deportment was sometimes poor. The tall, skinny boy had a better time of it at Camp Wigwam in Harrison, Me., where, at eleven, he played a fair game of tennis, made friends readily, and was voted "the most popular actor...
...modernity is grouping by ability in each subject, not by grades, so students can whiz through faster. Every 3R kindergartener writes and understands numbers up to 25, and some to 100. They begin reading at 4½. And it's all done without student geniuses: the top IQ is 130 (and the lowest...
...book contains a lot of questionable theory. Mayer has a good point when he says that IQ tests and classroom techniques are biased in favor of middle-class children, but he goes 'way too far. Among Mayer's "middle-class values" are order, cleanliness, neatness, and democracy--a somewhat narrow view...
Even worse, says Mayer, is the "general agreement" that "only a small fraction of children are truly educable on the secondary level." This is an illusion, owing to overreliance on IQ scores, which in fact can be raised by training. An example is New York City's "Higher Horizons" program, which has raised low IQs among "culturally deprived" children simply by inspiring them to aim for college (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959). Mayer suggests that U.S. education's test craze is largely a crutch for inadequate teaching. Good teachers take IQs lightly. At Louisville's Manly Junior High...