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[N the talk "Measuring Your Mind" in the Winter Course series from 4YA, G. W. Parkyn, M.A., Lecturer in Education at’ Otago University, gave a concise and precise account of the methods used in arriving at that weird and wonderful quantity known as the Intelligence Quotient ("not Intelligence Quota, please!" implored the lecturer). It is a fact that the fascination of intelligencemeasurement does not exercise itself on .
scientifically-inclined psychologists alone, but exerts an equal if totally unscientific attraction on the rest of mankind -as witness'the number of people who go to radio stations to have their intelligence publicly tested by means of quizzes, or spend much of their spare time filling in questionnaires to which "the answers will be found on page 100." Mr, Parkyn, however, dealt with the ex-pertly-prepared type of intelligencetest which is designed to measure the mental age of the person who answers’ it. The science of preparing such tests is so complicated that I couldn’t help wondering who, in his turn, would be capable of devising a test severe enough to measure the intelligence of the maker of intelligence-tests?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 10
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