COUNTING BRAINS
Reeeived Fnday, 7.5 p.m. LONDQN, Jan. 31. An only child ten,ds to do hetter in intelligence tests than childr,eji from large families, the British Medical Journal says. " This emerges from large-scale tests made hy psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists and statisticians. ' '.There is a strpng pp.ssihility that if present population trends , continue, Britain faces a progressive decline in the level ^ of ifs national intelligence," says* the Jpnrnal. Children from professiohal classes, it adds, were found to he on the average (hut only on the' average) more intelligent than children of unskilled lahourers.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 February 1947, Page 5
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