Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

[james_davis_nicoll]

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

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[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

IIRC, Stanford-Binet was a paper and pencil test and that simply is not an accurate measure of IQ.

It's never been a paper-and-pencil test -- always one-on-one oral. I looked into the history back when I was hanging out with a lot of people who defended the higher ceiling of the old Stanford-Binet (which I eventually decided was not justifiable for many reasons, one being the lousy security around older tests -- I was able to order a copy of the SB-LM manual online). Schools have been known to use paper-and-pencil tests (the ancestors of today's CogAT and the like) and refer to them as IQ tests, though. My grade school gave the Lorge-Thorndike, which was multiple choice, and I'm pretty sure they reported the results as "IQ scores."

The famous story about Richard Feynman getting only 123 on an IQ test was about a high school paper-and-pencil exam.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was an oral test when they gave it to me.