Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to these published projects several other checks have been made of the table. Thompson, in a second test, applied the SPT to 50 boys who had appeared before the Boston Juvenile Court...
Another study was made by Richard E. Thompson '52, which he submitted as his Senior Honors thesis in the Department of Social Relations. Thompson established the SPT as a valid instrument for distinguishing among children already showing behavioral difficulties, those who are true delinquents from those whose maladapted behavior is temporary. The SPT showed that among a representative group of 100 boys, included originally in a research project called the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, it would again have been possible to identify accurately 91 per cent of all the boys as either potential delinquents or as non-delinquents...
...discriminative potential of the SPT was found to be considerably greater than that of three clinicians (a psychiatrist, psychologist, and criminologist who had been initially charged with selecting the boys for the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study. Thompson reported that the clinicians had correctly identified only 65 per cent in comparison with 91 per cent correctly identified...
...Thompson, in a third experiment, applied the table to 50 girls, committed to the Division of Youth Service of the Massachusetts Department of Education between November, 1954, and May, 1955. This was only the second application of the test to girl delinquents. The first had been done by the Jewish Board of Guardians, in 1953, on 150 unmarried mothers, whereby it was found that 81 per cent of the women would have been correctly identified...
...first time since 1920, the Harmsworth Cup, symbol of world supremacy in powerboat racing, left the U.S. as Canada's Miss Supertest Ill, owned by Jim (Supertest gasoline) Thompson of London, Ont, defeated Maverick, owned by Phoenix Millionaire (oil, cattle) Bill Waggoner. In winning the cup, Miss Supertest set a new course record of 104.098 m.p.h...