> > The whole system was, quite sensibly, chucked over eighty years ago, when Binet invented IQ.
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> Do you have a text reference available for this particular classification system?

All that is from my Psych notes.
I wonder if the lecture notes are accessible from outside the university? Click on the link to find out...

> It sounds like something kludged together to justify eugenics propaganda in the last century.

Nope, it's the real thing. (I believe my lecturer; you think that's a mistake?)

The thing is, until early this century, there was no way of actually *measuring* intelligence, so people had to guess.

(Now we just argue over whether the thing that the tests measure is really intelligence or just knowledge, and what is intelligence anyway, and...)

Paul