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...appalled to learn of the outrageous use of psychometric tests made by a Maryland social service agency. Granted that the test is valid (which is quite a concession for the age of 2½), this cult of intelligence worshipers seems so bedazzled by a high IQ that it overlooks the fact that rearing a brilliant child without siblings (even though less bright) will not prepare the child for life in a world full of intelligent people. The agency perhaps does not realize that overprotection can be as injurious as rejection...
...family, Dameron, a city fireman in nearby Washington, D.C., had applied for a boy from Maryland's Montgomery County Social Service League. Then last week the Damerons themselves got a surprise. The agency's answer was no. Reason: Dori, now 2½, has an exceptionally high IQ-147 ("very superior"); to bring a child of average mentality into the family, said the league, would cause hardship for Dori as well as for the baby, whose IQ might be lower...
...manpower.* Selective Service law requires that all men scoring ten points (approximately equal to fourth grade) or higher on mental tests must be accepted for induction. During the first five months of 1957, some 38% of the Army's inductees were in the lower intelligence brackets (85-95 IQ), partly because students usually get automatic deferments through college and professional school, often miss the draft altogether. To upgrade its manpower, the Army has drastically tightened re-enlistment standards, tried hard to retrain its misfits the world over. Moreover, the Pentagon is readying legislation for Congress ensuring that only those...
...Cordiner pay-revision plan for the Army [May 20] or no Cordiner plan; it will still be the joy of the top sergeant (IQ: 50) to give the dirtiest jobs to the man with the most education...
...During the same period the social feeling against "blue-collar" work has increased. Says B. Gordon Funk, industrial arts supervisor for the Los Angeles Board of Education: "Boys and their parents are made to believe in the social necessity of a university education, even though we know that an IQ of no is necessary to succeed in college, and many of those who have it would be happier, and often earn more, in a trade or a technical...