Book, Mental Tests and Heredity
date: label: date made
content: 1930
name: label: author
content: Schieffelin, Barbara
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content: Schwesinger, Gladys Clotilde
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content: Galton Publishing Company
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content: Barbara Schieffelin [later Bosanquet] (1906-1987) and Gladys Clotilde Schwesinger (1893-1964) wrote this volume with funding from the American Eugenics Research Association and the Carnegie Institution of Washington. According to a contemporary review, it was designed to outline the problems involved when mental tests were used for used for purposes of eugenics. It also was designed to describe as completely as possible non-verbal tests offered at various times to appraise “general intelligence.”
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content: References:
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content: J.P. [Book Review], <I>American Journal of Psychology</I>, 1932, 45 #2, PP. 374-375.
label: Description
content: [Obituary 1 -- no title], <I>New York Times</I>, December 1 1987, p. D28.
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content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Gift of David Shakow
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: MA.316372.40
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content: 316372.40
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content: 316372
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content: book