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Lecturer on Social Psychology Henry Wechsler based his conclusions on about 15,000 undergraduates' responses to a survey, which asked the students about their drinking habits and frequency of reckless behavior caused by drunkenness...
...suggestion of HSPH colleagues Matthew Miller and David Hemenway, Wechsler decided to include a question about handgun ownership...
Most coeducational socializing went on off campus because, as Robert Wechsler '49 remembers, the rules about having women in your room were strict...
...local lady stopped me and asked me whom we were playing the next day. When I told her, she immediately says, 'I hope they beat the tar outta you,' turned on her heel, and strode away. I think that summed up the town/gown relationships of that era," says Robert Wechsler...
...when they persuaded the Army to give IQ tests to 1.7 million inductees. It was the world's first mass administration of an intelligence test, and many of the standardized tests in use today can be traced back to it: the now ubiquitous and obsessed-over SAT; the Wechsler, taken by several million people a year, according to its publisher; and Terman's own National Intelligence Test, originally used in tracking elementary school children. All these tests took from the Army the basic technique of measuring intelligence mainly by asking vocabulary questions (synonyms, antonyms, analogies, reading comprehension...