Herring Revision of the Binet-Simon Tests and Verbal and Abstract Elements in Intelligence Examinations

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Teachers college, Columbia university, 1924 - Binet-Simon Test - 72 pages

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Page 13 - ... any subjective imagery taken to represent, and to retain during further study, earlier outcomes of investigation.
Page 30 - Abstract and verbal tests afford better means for the prediction of human intelligence and the control of human situations generally than do concrete andjaon-verbal tesjg.
Page 31 - It seems to be the more purely abstract and the more purely verbal tests that afford the closer measures of intelligence.
Page 8 - We are bound to interpret the Pearson r. of -991, as meaning that there is little to choose between the stanford-Binet and the Herring-Binet as far as reliability and validity are concerned.
Page 32 - ... to think of any important posts of social responsibility, from railway surveying to international law, of which this does not seem true. It is the hod-carriers who typically deal with concrete situations.

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