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Excerpt from: The Mental Age Of Americans The average adult intelligence cannot be less than the average adult intelligence, and to anyone who knows what the words “mental age” mean, Mr. Stoddard’s remark is precisely as silly as if he had written that the average mile was three quarters of a mile long.... | ![]() Read Full Text |
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Title: | The Mental Age Of Americans | |
Creator: | Walter Lippmann (author) | |
Date: | October 25, 1922 | |
Format: | Article | |
Publication: | The New Republic | |
Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
Location: | vol.32, pp.213-215 | |
Keywords: | Advocacy; Alfred Binet; California; Children; Cognitive Disability; Eugenics; France; Government; Heredity; Ideologies; Intelligence; Intelligence Tests; Laws & Regulation; Lothrop Stoddard; Medicine & Science; Military; Prejudice; Psychology; Public Health & Welfare; Soldiers; Statistics; Walter Lippmann; War; WWI | |
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