Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remembered his boredom in Georgia public schools and decided "to save these kids from the same experience." Stanley, a statistician, sought out 12-to 13-year-old children in the Baltimore area who had already shown promise in math. He asked them to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test normally given to college-bound high school students. The result: a group of seven boys scored well over 700 (out of a possible 800), a feat matched by only 5% of 18-year-old males. Besides Dietz, Camerer and Stark, the test also identified two other youngsters who are graduating from Johns...
Stable Introverts. One of Stanley's main disappointments is that for still disputed reasons, few girls test well on math (TIME, March 14). Those who do qualify for the special tutorials tend to drop out, and their feeling for the boys in the program is "almost one of revulsion," he says, because the girls view their male counterparts as socially immature. So far, he maintains, the boys seem to have few emotional problems. "Scientists are stable introverts," says Stanley. "They are not highly impulsive and tend to act rationally." Furthermore, he adds, it has been "demonstrated empirically" that mathematically...
...guess which of these sequences were rearranges to make sense? Can you imagine how chaotic things get when they're seen out of sequence? If nothing had a logical sequence to it, how could they test I.Q.? The Timex and Bulova companies would be out of business...
With the cost of brown gold hovering above $4 per Ib. and sales beginning to fall off, producers are hustling a variety of substitutes, additives and extenders to take the sting out of coffee prices. General Foods, the biggest U.S. coffee roaster (Maxwell House, Yuban, Sanka) is test marketing a new brand, called Mellow Roast, that is a combination of coffee and other ingredients -46% wheat, bran and molasses in the instant. Mellow Roast ads not only stress low price (about $2.90 for 8 oz. of instant) but also maintain that the additives yield "a delicious coffee taste without...
...test one desperate day when, in the dining-room, he wheeled around a corner, tray in hand, only to confront The Most Beautiful Woman in Radcliffe (this is what everyone calls her--her family name has long since been discarded). The shock of being within three feet of The Most Beautiful Woman in Radcliffe was too much for my roommate, and his tray came clattering down, gracefully allowing the day's lunch to take up residence on his penny-loafers...