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An Interpretation of Mental Testing
| Preface |
| Chapter I. INTRODUCTION |
| PART I. PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS |
| Chapter II. THE FUNCTIONS OF A SCALE IN DIAGNOSIS |
| A. The Meaning of Intellectual Deficiency |
| B. Forms of Mental Deficiency Not Yet Discoverable by Tests |
| C. Doubtful Intellects Accompanied by Delinquency Presumed Deficient |
| Chapter III. THE PERCENTAGE DEFINITION OF INTELLECTUAL DEFICIENCY |
| A. The Definition |
| B. The Assumptions of a Quantitative Definition |
| (a) Deficiency is a Difference in Degree not in Kind |
| (b) As to the Variation in the Frequency of Deficiency at Different Ages |
| (c) As to the Number of Deficients not Detected by Tests |
| (d) Allowance May be Made for Variability |
| Chapter IV. WHAT PERCENTAGE IS FEEBLE-MINDED |
| A. Kinds of Social Care Contemplated |
| B. Estimates of the School Population Versus the General Population |
| C. Desirable Versus Immediately Advisable Social Care |
| D. Percentages Suggested to Harmonize the Estimates |
| E. Comparison With Important Estimates |
| F. The Ability of the Mentally Retarded Especially Those Receiving Special Training |
| Chapter V. ADAPTING THE PERCENTAGE DEFINITION TO THE BINET SCALE |
| A. The Border Region for the Mature |
| (a) Indication from a Random Group |
| (b) The Present Tendency Among Examiners |
| B. The Border Region for the Immature |
| (a) For the Binet 1908 Scale |
| (b) Data for Other Developmental Scales |
| (c) The Change in Interpreting the Borderline for the Immature |
| Chapter VI. DELINQUENTS TESTING DEFICIENT |
| A. At the Glen Farm School for Boys, Hennepin County, Minnesota |
| B. Comparison of Tested Deficiency Among Typical Groups of Delinquents |
| (a) Women and Girl Delinquents in State Institutions |
| (b) Women and Girl Delinquents in Country and City Institutions |
| (c) Men and Boy Delinquents in State Institutions |
| (d) Men and Boy Delinquents in County and City Institutions |
| C. Summary of Tested Deficiency Among Delinquents |
| Chapter VII. CHECKING THE BINET DIAGNOSIS BY OTHER METHODS |
| Chapter VIII. SCHOOL RETARDATION AMONG DELINQUENTS |
| A. In Minneapolis |
| B. School Retardation Among Other Groups of Delinquents |
| Chapter IX. COMPARISON OF THE SCHOOL TEST AND THE BINET TEST |
| A. Practical Uses of the School Test |
| (a) Estimating the Frequency of Deficiency by School Retardation |
| (b) School Retardation as a Warning of the Need for Examination |
| (c) School Success as a Check on the Binet Diagnosis |
| B. Checking Deficiency Among Delinquents by the School Test |
| Chapter X. BAD SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT AS A CAUSE OF DELINQUENCY |
| Chapter XI. DEFICIENCY AS A CAUSE OF DELINQUENCY |
| A. The Chances of the Mentally Deficient Becoming Delinquent |
| B. The Correlation of Deficiency and Delinquency |
| C. The Causes of Delinquency |
| (a) Constitutional Factors |
| (b) External Factors |
| (c) Weighing Heredity Against Environment |
| (d) The Criminal Diathesis |
| Chapter XII. SUMMARY AND SUGGESTIONS |
| PART II. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS |
| Chapter XIII. THE THEORY OF THE MEASUREMENT OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT |
| A. Comparison of Units and Scales for Measuring Individual Differences |
| (a) Equivalent Units of Ability When the Distributions are Normal |
| (b) The Year Unit of the Binet Scale |
| (c) Is Tested Capacity Distributed Normally? |
| (d) Equivalent Units of Development When the Form of Distribution is Uncertain |
| B. The Curves of Mental Development |
| (a) The Significance of Average Curves of Development |
| (b) Changes in the Rate of Development |
| (c) The Question of Earlier Arrest of Deficient Children |
| Chapter XIV. QUANTITATIVE DEFINITIONS OF THE BORDERLINE |
| A. Different Forms of Quantitative Definitions |
| B. Common Characteristics of Quantitative Definitions |
| C. Practical Advantages of the Percentage Method |
| D. Theoretical Advantage of the Percentage Method with Changes in the Form of the Distributions |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY ON TESTED DELINQUENTS |
| Other References Cited |
| APPENDICES |
| INDEX |
| Tables | |
|---|---|
| I. | Age distribution of deaths in the general population and of feeble-minded in institutions |
| II. | Mortality of institutional deficients in the United States compared with the general population |
| III. | Test borderlines with randomly selected Minneapolis 15-year-olds |
| IV. | Results with the Binet tests for mental ages XI and XII (1908 series) |
| V. | Percentages of mentally retarded children as tested with the Binet 1908 Scale |
| VI. | Mental retardation of children as tested with the Binet 1911 Scale |
| VII. | Borderlines with the Point Scale |
| VIII. | Test ages of the Glen Lake group of delinquent boys |
| IX. | Intellectual development relative to life-ages and school positions among the delinquent boys of Glen Lake |
| X. | Binet 1911 tests of boys consecutively admitted to the Detention Home at Thorn Hill, Allegheny County |
| XI. | Frequency of tested deficiency among over 9000 delinquents |
| XII. | Age and grade distribution of elementary school pupils in Minneapolis |
| XIII. | School retardation of Minneapolis delinquents and elementary school pupils |
| XIV. | Indices of frequency and amount of school retardation for Minneapolis delinquents and elementary school pupils |
| XV. | Percentage of pupils 12 and 13 years of age most seriously retarded in school |
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