Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another fallacy that the couple disproved by this extensive project, is that large families are the cause of delinquency. As it happened, both groups of families were equally large, averaging six to seven children...
Working retrospectively, he found that if the table had been applied when these boys were six years old it would have predicted that 92 per cent of them were destined to become delinquents...
Menzel presented a brief talk about the eclipse until the plane broke though into sunlight. When the moon started the fifty-six-second period of totality, the airliner became a scene of controlled confusion. Nearly everyone on the plane hurriedly snapped pictures, since the next eclipse in this area will not come for 300 years...
...encourage its application to juvenile delinquents with backgrounds differing from those who made up the original group. If offenders had the same "cluster of factors" as were found among the SPT delinquents, the test would be validated. The process was then to be reversed--the test applied to six year olds to see if predictions of delinquency actually came true...
...Thom Clinic for Children in Boston, applied it to 57 boys ranging in age from 6 to 12 years, who had been treated for aggressive, destructive, anti-social behavior. The scorings made by the clinic psychologist indicated that 823 per cent of these boys, at the age of six, would have been clearly identified by the test as potential offenders...