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
In regard to the borderline for the mature with the Stanford scale it is
especially important to note that at present no randomly selected mature
group has been tested with this scale so that we are at a loss to know
what would be a safe borderline for adults with it. It is peculiarly
unsafe, it seems to me, to carry over an intelligence quotient which may
shut out the lowest 1% of children who distribute normally, to the
uncertain borderline of an adult group composed of thirty business men,
150 migrating unemployed, 150 adolescent delinquents and 50 high school
students. By these data it would be impossible to tell what per cent. of
a random group of adults would be shut out by this borderline of 70.
TABLE VII.—BORDERLINE RESULTS WITH THE POINT SCALE
The lower range of “intelligence coefficients” for the normal group of
school children and adults (226, Table III).
───────────────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────┬───────
Nearest Ages │ 4-5 │ 6-7 │ 8-9 │ 10-11 │ 12-13 │ 14-15 │ 18-on
───────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────
No. of Cases │ 84 │ 357 │ 196 │ 161 │ 120 │ 77 │ 284
───────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────
Presumably │ │ Under │ │ Under │ │ │ Under
deficient │ │ .61 │ │ .61 │ │ │ .61
│ │ 0.4% │ │ 0.6% │ │ │ 0.7%
───────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────
Doubtful │ Under │.61 to │ Under │.61 to │ Under │ Under │.61 to
│ .51 │ .81 │ .51 │ .71 │ .51 │ .61 │ .71
───────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼───────
Both │(4.8%) │ 1.5% │ 1.5% │(5.0%) │ 1.7% │ 1.3% │(6.3%)
───────────────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────┴───────
Pupils of Grammar School B, Cambridge, Mass. (225, Table III)
───────────────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────
Ages │ 6 │ 7 │ 8 │ 9 │ 10 │ 11 │ 12 │ 13
───────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────
No. of Pupils │ 71 │ 73 │ 61 │ 71 │ 76 │ 79 │ 60 │ 52
───────────────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┼──────
Per Cent of │ 1.4 │ 1.4 │ 1.5 │ 2.7 │ 1.3 │ 1.3 │ 1.7 │ 2.0
Pupils at │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
and Below │ 11 │ 14 │ 15 │ 21 │ 35 │ 40 │ 33 │ 38
Points │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
───────────────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────
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