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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1949.

INTELLIGENCE TEST IS PUT TO THE TEST

RADIO

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broadcasting on a frequency of

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13.30 Hong Kong Calling"-Program-

me Summary,

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2.00 Clone Down

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4.02—Children's Half Boar Conducted by Jack Frost.

6.33—–—– Portuguese Half Rowr. (Studio).

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(London Relay).

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London, November 13. Within the next few years almost every child in Britain will have undergone an intelligence test.; "No longer will teachers have to rely on the old method of observing a child's work. Instead, the answers to a standard questionnaire

DUKE LEADING 20TH CENTURY

COVENANTERS

London, November 12.

The Scottish Duke of Montrose, whose ancestor two centuries ago helped to unite the English and Scottish parliaments, is today leading a move- ment to separate them," :

Seventy-one years old and the sixth in the ducal line, he wants to see.a. Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.

will give the child's "mental age" and "in- telligence quotient (IQ)." The genius and the moron will also be discovered by this method, according to educational psychologists. In fact, one such 11-year-1 Thus, if a child is PR.70 old "genius" was recently means that of 100 children of the Isame age this child is as good as, found by a London psycholo- or better that, 70 of them. This gist who recorded the boy's is an important difference from IQ. as 170. The "average the LQ., but I do not know why boy" has an I.Q. of 100 and When, during the war, I took enly 0.03 per cent of chil- both intelligence and aptitude about.

tests in the Army, they revealed that I was fitted for training as

school

:

Rediffusion

Tall and grey haired, the Duke heads a list of signa- tories to a Scottish home- rulers* covenant, pledging its supporters to do every- thing they can to bring this H.K.T.

Two of Scotland's members in

dren get over 160.

Nearly every County Educa- Xout CalineTM-Program- tional Authority uses some form mechanic. Neither my pleas the present parliament have in- of intelligence test to decide to that I could pot hold a spanner dicated that they will join the дот my first attempts in the what type of secondary children are best suited. Children, werkshops convinced the Army. 7.00-World News and New Analysis, aged 10 to 11, are given a group It took nine months of "courses," After that I was never again test and their intelligence is then required to be a mechanic. How- and HM Roral recorded for posterity.

Since 1945 the LCC has used ever, perhaps the tests were right Record" Prraccited by a test of general intelligence, and and we just did not persevere an English and an arithmetic test long enough. to decide the secondary school issue. In addition, head and class teachers in the elementary school must record an Assessment ability and attainment

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Old German Traits Still A Menace

A panel of teachers then grades Only Ave per all the children. cent reach the highest grade. * "Difficult" children are given individual tests. So are "repre sentative groups" of both chil- dren and adults. Under the most frequently

"mental age" can range from "two years" to "superior adult, class III.”“

Two-Year-Old Tested Armed with a test paper

used

test.

and

not

i

The Army still uses intelll gence texts on all its recruits

of

In fact there are five. The first, devised by the Army's own determine psychologists, is to Intelligence Irrespective education. Then follow tests of the ability to use words (possible sergeant majors?), mechanical aptitude, simple arithmetic and ability to follow instructions. When the re cruit reaches a unit, his Com- knows in advance how the youth manding Officer by these tests

compares with "average.”

Ministry's View

The Ministry of Education takes the book of instructions (which no official attitude to intelligence the publishers refused to let me tests, but in Scotland 10,000 chil- have as they are sold "only to dren, all aged 11, were Intelli- teachers who must promise to divulge the contents"), I tried this number 1,215

gence-tested two years ago. Of (those born the first test on my son, aged two on the first day of the even mon- years and four months.

ths of 1936) were given further individual tests.

As I built the tower ched with interest. There

Dure in signing-they are William Gallacher, Communist, and John McGovern, Independent Labour.

The Duke fold a meeting of the Twentieth Century Scottish "Co

enters in Edinburgh that they did not want complete" separation from England, nor did they wish to disrupt Empire unity.

They wanted to deal with the question at a better government

a better way.

Some quarters have suggested that Scottish Liberals may also accord support to the Covenant, but Conservatives and

Labour

Party members of parliament are unlikely to treat the covenant favourably.

commit

Labour members do not wish to themselves before they know the government's 1950 gen- eral election policy for Scotland. Scotland already has its own law and fisheries ministry, a town and system, health system, agriculture country planning section other special departments.

A Practical Problem

and

She has three ministers and two under-secretaries la the Government and

special

"Grand Committee” of Parlia ment which sits exclusively on Scottish affairs,

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A considerable measure of this 8.15 It is intended that all children home

B-30 The responsibility has been he wat-individually tested shall be "tol-given to Scotland by the present

were bowed through" for the rest of Government

This test was to place a num ber of wooden blocks in the form

So anxious were the psycholo- | of a square tower and then ask gists to obtain correct figures the child to make a similar that a tester waited three weeks, New York, November 12.

tower. My son has been playing for bad weather to abate and Dr. Robert Kempner, Ger-

this game for, it seems, years allow crossing to a remote island man-born lawyer, said here last He would pass the test with ease, where one child was living night that the traits in Ger-I was certain. many which led to the last war are present today.

Dr. Kempner, who prosecuted sounds of disapproval as I took it their lives. Perhaps by then it Nazi diplomats and

Cabinet down. I suggested he should re- will be known how much value ministers in Nuremberg, was build it, driven out of Germany by Hitler

can be placed on LQ.s. "Daddy knock down; daddy put in the 1930's and became a na-up." was the firm and repeated turalised American,

reply.

There the test ended. But whether my sons's mental aga is below or above his years i do not know. I did, however, receive confirmation of his stub- bornness.

Dr. Kempner fold the Biennial) National Convention of the American Jewish Congress that the same traits had led once be- fore to war through unwise statesmanship, which rebuilt an aggressive militaristic Germany.

I will not reveal my own "men-

He appealed to the American people to see that any further aid tal age," but to get a rough idea to Germany be for the sole pur-at what "age" to start his quiz, pose of integrating Western Ger- the tester has a list of 45 words many into the Western European which the examinee must ex

plain. I could define more than *No further aid should be given 40 with ease. Word No. 43 was not which would revive a united and even in the first dictionary I con- sovereign German national state", įsulted. --Better.

How System Works

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Here is an example of how the system works. If a child of ten can define correctly only the first

time eight words

New "Voice

Of America" Station

Salonika, November 12. American radio engineers are working round the clock in Salonika on ja 50,000 watt "Voice of America" transmitter with which it is hoped to be gin broadcasts to the Comin- form countries by the end of the year.

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The US$1,000,000 installation will be the second major Voice approximate of America relay in Europe to "mental age" would be eight. try to break through the jam- To give some leeway the tester ming of Soviet stations The would then turn back to the ques-other is at Munich.

Balkans

tary of State for Scotland, told re- Mr. Arthur Woodburn, Secre-

porters. “Every Scot, wants the maximum of Scottish administra- tion to be in his own country. But he..also wants Scotland to play her full part in the British House of Commons and in Imperial affairs. Scots would resent any attempt to drive them out of the British House of Commons and on their own part would certainly not take steps to withdraw."

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COMET'S FLIGHT

Mr. Woodburn, himself a Scot- sman, said that be personally and

Hatfield, November 13. the Government generally were in

The De Havilland Comet, favour of the maximum devolu Britain's new jet airliner, averag- tion for Scotland, "But this is sed just under 853 kilometres per and it cannot be solved on the fight from Edinburgh to Brighton, practical problem", he declared, hour on a recent 603-kilometres basis of emotionálisın".--Reuter.

the company disclosed tonight.— Reuter.

LUXURY YACHT ON THE ROCKS

Acapulco, Mexico,

November 12.

tions for mental age six. If all Engineers said it will easily six of these questions

an-cover the are

and other swered correctly he would record parts of Europe with directional

The 2,699-ton luxury yacht "six" as the child's basic mental antema that can be beamed to:

Corsair struck rocks today and any spot. age.

Built on then ask the six East of Salonika, it stands only bour. He would

marthland 12 miles went aground in Acapulco har- questions designed for mental ag a few yards from the Aegean Sea only four are answered and will be equipped with the correctly,

there was no eight months

Passengers said (two

most recent radio devices. Con- panic and months for each correct answer) struction work began last May as the 55 passengers and 37 mem- no great excitement are added to the basic age six. with the entire area floodlit and bers of the crew were taken of strict security precautions against in lifeboats and small harbour sabotage. Asriciated Press.

seven

This process is continued until, in some mental age-group, Do correct answers, are given. The months are then added to the basic mental age, giving, for instance. seven years and four months as the 10-year-old's "mental age."

The IQ then discovered by multiplying the mental age by

COAL RECORD

[draft-

Part officials said that a large hole was torn in the bow, which” |is submerged a short distance ofshore, Shipping men said she would have sunk it her Captain had not grounded her.

Esson, November 12. 100 and dividing by the actual their biggest day

West Germany's coal mines had age-Le, 73 x 100 10 equalling tion since the war an

of produc in this case LQ.73,

The yacht, which was bound Friday-- on Armistice Day.

for Los Angeles, was converted Education psyschologists do not They dug the record total of to a cruise ship after war service. all favour the use of an IQ. Some 360,338 tons, the German Bohr She Is 343 feet long and once prefer grading children by "per Coal Authority announced today. belonged to the banker J. Pier- centile rank" (PR).

-Associated Press.

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