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Title: The intelligence of the delinquent boy
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, J. Harold, 1888- Walter E. Fernald State School. Howe Library
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency
Publisher: Whittier, Calif. : Whittier State School, Dept. of Research
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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s, clearly indi-cates the social and intellectual inferiority of the group with whichwe are now dealing. That the differences obtained are not due to age differences maybe seen in Fig. 6. Here are distributed the 470 cases according tochronological age, with the relative extent of each social-intelligencegroup in every age represented. Peeble-mindedness is common to allof the age-groups and in not greatly varying proportions. The dif-ferences are not due to unfairness of the tests, inasmuch as the sametests, with exactly the same procedure, were used in making the com-parison, and, moreover, the supplementary data have more thanmade up for the frequently alleged imperfections in the scale. Untilbetter and more reliable methods are available for measuring intelli-gence and judging social adaptability we cannot escape the convictionthat the differences here described represent actual differences inJiative endowment. How this conclusion is borne out by the study of CASES60— CASES —80
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IP II 1-2. O 14- /JT Ib^y^ll le 19 20_X^_2ai YEARS V Y juvetnile: group adult oroup Fig. 6. Distribution of social-intelligence groups by chronological agesof subjects 32 The Journal of Delinquency, Monograph No. 1 family history, the analysis of conduct, the classification of environ-mental influences, and detailed investigations of individual cases willform the remaining part of the study. The supplementary data. During the three years over which thetests have extended much time and attention have been given to thesecuring of data from other sources. Binet, Terman, Bobertag, God-dard, Kuhlmann and other advocates of the test method for measur-ing intelligence have emphasized the importance of interpreting thetest results in terms which call for detailed information concerningthe subjects personal history, heredity, physical condition, industrialefficiency, moral reactions, home conditions, and other factors relatedto the development and expression of intelligence. Terman (54, p. 50)

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