Word: terman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Masculinity-Femininity. Men are not entirely masculine, nor women entirely feminine, proclaimed the late Otto Weininger, brilliant German who blew out his brains at 24, just after appointment to Harvard's faculty. At Stanford University Lewis Madison Terman sought ways of measuring sex variations and found 908 points on which men and women differ according to their interests, trends, emotional reactions, preferences, aversions. One out of 100 men, he found, is more feminine than the average woman, one woman out of 100 more masculine than the average man. The sexes overlap in their traits. Living with a woman...
...Malthusians is that wide-spread opportunity can only be offered to developing manhood and womanhood in a nation unharassed by population difficulties. The second contention is simply false. It was disposed of by Havelock Ellis in a series of brilliant essays quite some time ago. And just recently Terman has shown that the thousand most intelligent children of California are above the average in bodily health and strength...
Binet's Work Revised by Terman...
...Binet first conceived the idea," the lecturer pointed out, "of devising a measuring scale upon norms from a large number of individuals. This method was revised and adapted by Professor Terman of Standard University, and the satisfactory results obtained have been a stimulus to the development of group intelligence tests...