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...exceptional intelligence who are likely to need exceptional educational treatment. Last year some 250,000 U. S. schoolchildren, inmates of juvenile delinquent institutions and miscellaneous persons, had their I. Q.s scored by a revision of the Binet-Simon test, called the Stanford-Binet and published by Dr. Lewis Madison Terman in 1916. Last week Stanford University's spry, 60-year-old Psychologist Terman and his associate, Dr. Maude Amanda Merrill, were guiding through the presses of Houghton Mifflin Co. the first revision ever made in this prime educational tool...
...Stanford-Binet, like the old, is oral. A new edition of Professor Terman's manual, Measuring Intelligence, gives instructions for administering and scoring the questions. To avoid duplication in the case of students tested twice in one year, these have been increased from a single set of 90 to two sets of 129 apiece...
...question was admitted by Testers Terman and Merrill without being tried out by seven field investigators on some 3,000 schoolchildren scattered over the U. S. To keep the children standard the investigators ruled out schools in tenement neighborhoods, swank suburban academies, the entire pre-school group of children in Colorado who for some reason tested too high. Some questions had to be discarded. Tester Terman found, for instance, that a picture of a cat with two legs did not always seem absurd to smart children. Nor could they agree sufficiently on: What can scissors and knife do that spoons...
...wife but of no less than 270, during the three years that indignant Executive Secretary Jack Anthony of the Alimony Reform League of New York State has been prying into the psychology of women who have their onetime mates jailed for nonpayment of alimony. Lately Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, distinguished Stanford University psychologist, after tabulating the results of a questionnaire, described the typical divorced woman as lacking "sweet femininity" but possessing "rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance" (TIME, June 24). But Dr. Terman had no evidence that any of his rugged women were keeping their husbands in jail...
Stanford's Dr. Terman had found that his typical divorced woman was inclined to be less mercenary than happily or unhappily married women. Mr. Anthony likewise found that his jailing wives were unmercenary, at least in the sense that they would rather discomfort their husbands than get money from them. When he pointed out to the women who called on him that no money would be forthcoming so long as the husband was in jail, the caller almost invariably replied: "That's all right; I'll get along without his money...