Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental TestingMiner, James Burt
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Deficiency and Delinquency: An Interpretation of Mental Testing
Miner, James Burt
Children with mental disabilities; Juvenile delinquents; Mentally ill offenders; Psychological tests
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Goddard │ 144 │ 39 27 │ │ 75 52
(Includes none │ 166 │ │ 73 44 │
above 6th │ │ │ │
grade) │ │ │ │
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Johnston │ 24 │ 6 25 │ │ ?
(Includes some │ 29 │ │ 7 24 │
high school │ │ │ │
pupils) │ │ │ │
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Terman and │ 35 │ 3 9 │ │ 29 83
Childs │ │ │ │
(Includes a few│ 44 │ │ 14 32 │
in 8th grade) │ │ │ │
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Rogers and │ 20 │ 1 5 │ │ 5 25
McIntyre │ │ │ │
│ 27 │ │ 6 22 │
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Totals │ 357 379 │ 100 │ 166 │ 217?
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Binet and Simon. L'Annee Psychol., 1908, _14_: 1911, _17_: 145-200.
Bloch and Preiss. Zeits. f. angew. Psychol., 1912, _6_: 539-547.
Bobertag. Zeits. f. angew. Psychol., 1912, _6_: 495-538.
Dougherty. J. of Educ. Psychol., 1913, _4_: 338-352.
Goddard. Ped. Sem., 1911, _18_: 232-259.
Johnston. J. of Exper. Ped., 1911, _1_: 24-31.
Terman and Childs. J. of Educ. Psychol., 1912, _3_: (Feb.-May).
Rogers and McIntyre. Brit. J. of Psychol., 1914, _7_: 265-299.
Each of the studies indicated in the table, except that of Bloch and
Preiss, gives evidence that the XII-year tests are too difficult for
12-year-old children. Moreover, we find that in the 1911 revision of
their scale Binet and Simon advanced their 1908 XII-year tests to
test-age XV and four out of the five XI-year tests to test-age XII.
Passing the XII-year (1908) tests would, therefore, seem to bring a
child above the upper limit of feeble-mindedness as defined even by the
American Association for the Study of Feeble-mindedness, since it means
more than the intelligence of a child of 12.
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