Intelligence

The Game Of Patience
How The Scale Was Derived
Giving Definitions Superior To Use
Supplementary Considerations
Three Commissions
Problem Questions
Using Three Words In A Sentence
The Validity Of The Intelligence Quotient
Making Change
Binet's Experiment On How Teachers Test Intelligence
The Necessity Of Standards
Scattering Of Successes
Superior Adult 1: Vocabulary (seventy-five Definitions 13500 Words)
Adhering To Formula
The Ball-and-field Test (score 2 Inferior Plan)
Vocabulary; Twenty Definitions 3600 Words
Recording Responses
Intelligence Tests Of The Feeble-minded
Superior Adult 6: Ingenuity Test
Giving Sex

The Necessity Of Standards

In the first place, in order to judge an individual's intelligence it is necessary
to have in mind some standard as to what constitutes normal intelligence. This the
ordinary parent or teacher does not have. In the case of school children, for example,
each pupil is judged with reference to the average intelligence of the
class. But the teacher has no means of knowing whether the average for
her class is above, equal to, or below that for children in general. Her
standard may be too high, too low, vague, mechanical, or fragmentary.
The same, of course, holds in the case of parents or any one else
attempting to estimate intelligence on the basis of common observation.





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