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...board's 20 testmakers, not satisfied yet, are working out the super test of tomorrow: something that will measure new aspects of the student's personality. By making him perform the same simple operation over & over, for example, they hope to figure out his "persistence quotient" (one reason why steady, mediocre tortoises sometimes nose out brilliant but unstable hares...
...much to do with the tenacity of the animals here. It is noteworthy that the animals, rather than deserting such beaten shores for the safe cove and protected pools, simply increase their toughness and fight back at the sea with a kind of joyful survival. This ferocious survival quotient excites us and makes us feel good, and from the crawling, fighting, resisting qualities of the animals, it almost seems that they are excited...
Rhythm of Growth. Drs. Gesell and Amatruda believe that standard Intelligence Quotient tests are rigid and artificial. Instead they have invented "Development Quotient," obtained by dividing a child's maturity age (determined by his reactions to tests at key ages) by his chronological age. The result is then multiplied by 100. For instance, if an eight-week-old child can pass only a four-week test, his D.Q. is 50. Normal rating...
...Follette 's was nevertheless inequitable. Reason: corporations that have recently earned a high rate of return would be penalized in comparison with those that have been running at or near a deficit. For the latter (railroads, etc.) could ride the boom a long time (with a leverage quotient seductive to investors) before reaching the onerous tax brackets. The more efficient a corporation has been, the more its capital consists of brains instead of brick - in short, the more successful a corporation has been in terms of its normal rate of return, the more burdensome would be its share...
...confused with the I. Q. (intelligence quotient), the A. V. Q. is a measure of the ratio of adjectives to verbs in a sample of writing (i.e., an A. V. Q. of 50 means that there are 50 adjectives to every 100 verbs). A few psychologists who had studied writing and speaking style before Dr. Boder concluded that an individual with an "active" (verby) style was likely to be dynamic, restless, emotionally unstable, that one with a "qualitative" style (many nouns and adjectives) was more stable, reflective, mature, intellectual...