The measurement of intelligence : an explanation of and a complete guide for the use of the Stanford revision and extension of the Binet-Simon intelligence scale . y is a university student apparently of very superior intelli-gence. E. F. has a sister almost as remarkable as himself. E. in the sixth grade and at the head of his class. Although aboutfour grades advanced beyond his chronological age he is still onegrade retarded! He could easily carry seventh-grade work. In allprobability E. F. could be made ready for college by the age of 12years without injury to body or mind.
The measurement of intelligence : an explanation of and a complete guide for the use of the Stanford revision and extension of the Binet-Simon intelligence scale . y is a university student apparently of very superior intelli-gence. E. F. has a sister almost as remarkable as himself. E. in the sixth grade and at the head of his class. Although aboutfour grades advanced beyond his chronological age he is still onegrade retarded! He could easily carry seventh-grade work. In allprobability E. F. could be made ready for college by the age of 12years without injury to body or mind. His mother has taken theonly sensible course; she has encouraged him without subjectinghim to overstimulation. 102 THE MEASUREMENT OF INTELLIGENCE E. F. was selected for the test as probably one of the brightestchildren in a city of a third of a million population. He may notbe the brightest in that city, but he is one of the three or four mostintelligent the writer has found after a good deal of searching. Heis probably equaled by not more than one in several thousand un-selected children. How impatiently one waits to see the fruit ofsuch a budding genius!. B. F. Son of a minister, age 7-8; mental age 12-If.; I Q 7000 (12 years). This test was not made by the writer, but by one of his graduate stu-dents. The record included theverbatim responses, so that it waseasy to verify the scoring. Therecan be no doubt as to the substan-tial accuracy of the test. This I Qof 160 is the highest one in theStanford University records. B. excellent health, normal playinterests, and is a favorite amonghis playfellows. Parents had notthought of him as especially re-Fig. 16. BALL AND field. B. R, markable. He is only in the thirdAGE 7-8; mental AGE 12-4; grade, and is therefore about threeI Q 160 grades below his mental age. (This is a 12-year performance) It is especially noteworthythat not one of the children we have described with I Qabove 130 has ever had any unusual amo
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