Whipple's information test. After checking up the words as marked, it was found that K was able to define only 5 of the 100 words and to give a rough, inexact explanation of only 5 others. This is probably not far from an average eighth grade ability.
Matching proverbs test (Otis). K was given the three Otis provisional lists. These resembled the form of the test included in later published editions of the Otis Group Scale, but were not identical with the latter. K's scores on the three lists were 4, 9 and 6. The average of 6.3 represents about eighth grade ability.
Absurd pictures. The Terman series of 44 absurd pictures was next given.[1] As these do not measure above 12 years, it is not surprising That K succeeded with all but two. His intellectual deficiency is clearly not found chiefly on the perceptual level.
Group Examination A (Original 10-Test Alpha)
Test 1. Oral Directions. Only 2 correct. Weighted score 6. (About 8½ years).
Test 2. Memory for digits. Four correct. Weighted score, 8. (About 9 years). Extreme memory span, 5 digits. (8 or 9 years).
Test 3. Disarranged sentences. Nine correct, 3 wrong. Raw score, 6; weighted score, 12. (About 12 years.) People are many candy of fond—marked false. Property floods life and destroy—marked false.
Test 4. Arithmetical reasoning. Raw score, 6; weighted score, 18. (12½ years.) How many hours will it take a truck to go 66 miles at the rate of 6 miles an hour?—Ans. "10." If you buy 2 packages of tobacco at 7 cents each and a pipe for 65 cents, how much change should you get from a two-dollar bill?—Ans. "1.28."
Test 5. Information. Raw score, 28; weighted score, 56. (About 16 years.)
Test 6. Synonym—Antonym. Score, 21. (About 16 years.) this test is not weighted. Omitted definite—vague, concave—convex, adapt—conform, debase—exalt, repress—restrain.
Test 7. Best Answer. Five attempted, 4 correct. Weighted score, 12 (About 11½ years.) Why judge a man by what he does rather than by what he says?—"It is wrong to judge anybody."
Test 8. Number Series Completion. Raw score, 7; weighted score, 14. (About 15 years.)
Test 9. Analogies. Six correct. (About 10½ years.) weighted. Omitted or failed on items like the following:
- (5) Dress—woman: feathers—(bird, neck, feet, bill);
- (6) Water—drink: bread—(cake, eat, coffee, pie);
- (7) Shoe—foot: hat—(coat, nose, head, collar).
Test 10. Number Cancellation. Score, 19. (About 15 years.)
Total weighted score, 175. This is about median for the high seventh grade, or age 13½ to 14, and is approximately equivalent to score 70 on Alpha. The lowest score earned by any Stanford University student in a group of 300 tested was 205. However, K evidently does consider-
- ↑ Described in J. of Applied Psychology, 1918. vol. 2, p. 348. The pictures themselves have not been published.
