ID# 337:
 Eugenics field workers meeting notes about hereditary behavior
Date:
1915
Pages: (1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9)
Source:
 American Philosophical Society, ERO, MSC77,SerVII,Box1: Field Worker Files
Eugenics field workers meeting notes about hereditary behavior

13 Brooklyn - June 24, 1915 Morning spent in discussion. "When mark a person Fm. & when not?" No set line. Nature recognizes no such thing as feeblemindedness. Man tries to make laws of classification but can draw no hard & fast line, for such a classification is artificial." Dr. Davenport Discussion on Alcoholism - "When mark A?" left to supt. Working under. Different kinds of A & different degrees. 14 Mr. Blades on hare-lip. Is hereditary but not in all cases. Discussion on value of Binet tests - Conclusion - of some value when conditions under which child is tested are very unfavorable as a means of knowing[?] the child, even though results [strikeout]of[end strikeout] in mental age very unsatisfactory. The Binet tests are best means we have so far for determining mental age. School records also very valuable.

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