Citation

Hollingworth LS. J. Consult. Psychol. 1937; 1(5): 73-75.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1937, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/h0062335

PMID

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Abstract

Society has yet to recognize the significance and importance of the fact that the median IQ of delinquents is 85 and that guidance of the unstable cannot be effective. Similarly it has still to be emphasized that effective original thinking is restricted to those few individuals who are "very far above the average in mental capacity. Creative thinking of a high order, in early adulthood, is not discovered under 170 IQ and rarely under 180 IQ. Children testing at or above 180 IQ (S-B, 1916) are very rare in the population--roughly, perhaps, as about 1 in 100,000." A systematic study of mental deviates is desirable to establish complete and reliable methods of identification, and then "we need to know what mental deviations mean in terms of the world's work." Portrait of author. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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