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EXCERPT: The effect of the intelligence quotient on a tester's mind may be to make it seem as if intelligence were constant, whereas it is only the statistical position in large groups which is constant. This illusion of constancy has, I believe, helped seriously to prevent men like Terman from appreciating the variability of early childhood....

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TITLE:  The Future For The Tests
CREATOR:  Walter Lippmann (author)
DATE:  November 29, 1922
FORMAT:  Article
FORMAT TYPE:  Magazine
 
PUBLICATION:  The New Republic
SOURCE:  n/a
LOCATION:  vol.32, pp.9-11
 
KEYWORDS:  Alfred Binet, Children, Cognitive Disability, Education, Eugenics, Heredity, Institutions, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Lewis Terman, Lothrop Stoddard, Prejudice, Schools, Statistics, Walter Lippmann


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