Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago a psychologist named Harold Manville Skeels, a professor at University of Iowa, was assigned by the State to advise the State orphanage. He found that the orphanage was sending babies (mostly bastards) born of feeble-minded parents to highly intelligent families for adoption. Horrified, Dr. Skeels hurried forth to see how much damage had been done. He gave the adopted children intelligence tests. To his surprise, their average I.Q. was 115, well above normal (100). Not one was dull...
Said Stanford's famed Psychologist Lewis Terman: "It appears characteristic of the Iowa group of workers that they . . . find difficulty in reporting accurately either the data of others or their own." Miss Florence L. Goodenough, of University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Welfare, claimed that Dr. Stoddard's investigators had made technical errors...
...Stoddard had found supporters. The yearbook reported that identical twins reared in separate homes had different I.Q.s. Southern Negroes who moved to Harlem (and thus got better schooling) raised their I.Q.s. Psychologist Robert Ladd Thorndike (son of famed Edward Lee Thorndike) had examined the records of some 1,100 children in three famed progressive schools (Horace Mann, Lincoln, Ethical Culture), found that in two schools children's I.Q.s were static, but in the third (unidentified) there was an average I.Q. gain of more than six points...
...with the yellow peril) make him persona grata to Nazis, went recently to Germany as correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Last week glib Dr. Stoddard got an interview with Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. Addressing the little doctor as a "master psychologist," Interviewer Stoddard asked how come the Germany of 1940, unlike that of 1914, has no hurrah spirit...