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“Intelligence” and School Examinations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Extract

“General Intelligence” is a will-o’-the-wisp, and Psychologists have been chasing it with Tests for a considerable time. Whether it has yet been brought to heel and can be exactly measured is still open to question, but the modern Intelligence Tests certainly discover some kind of innate ability. Is this ability purely “general,” or do some types of ability show up better than others in the Tests?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1926

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References

* Published by the University of London Press. See also Burt’s Mental Scholastic Tests, pages 221 ff.