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...clarity at all are possible. Yet into this hazy realm psychologists feel justified in pushing, and in reporting therefrom their findings, so long as, like good scientists, they warn the reader of factors that may obfuscate the conclusions. With no less than nine such warnings, Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, head of Stanford University's psychology department since 1922 and starred for distinguished research in American Men of Science, and Psychologist Winifred Bent Johnson present in the current issue of Character and Personality* a meaty, heavily documented summary of "Personality Characteristics of Happily Married, Unhappily Married, and Divorced Persons...
...subjects Investigators Johnson & Terman had 346 married and 116 divorced couples, closely matched in age, religion, education, occupation, nationality of ancestry. The married subjects furnished anonymous information which enabled the researchers to select the 100 most happily wedded pairs, the 100 least happily wedded pairs. These 200 pairs and 100 divorced couples were given the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and the Strong Test of Vocational Interests, consisting in all of 545 questions, some banal, some trivial, some bizarre, but all shrewdly calculated to draw answers constituting in sum a significant mosaic of personality. The investigators then drew six portraits distinguishing...
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 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...