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Excerpt from: The Future For The Tests 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.... | Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The Future For The Tests | |
| Creator: | Walter Lippmann (author) | |
| Date: | November 29, 1922 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | The New Republic | |
| Source: | n/a | |
| Location: | vol.32, pp.9-11 | |
| Keywords: | Advocacy; Alfred Binet; Children; Cognitive Disability; Education; Educational Institutions; Eugenics; Heredity; Ideologies; Institutions; Intelligence; Intelligence Tests; Laws & Regulation; Lewis Terman; Lothrop Stoddard; Medicine & Science; Prejudice; Public Health & Welfare; Schools; Social Welfare & Communities; Statistics; Walter Lippmann | |
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