ID# 343:
"Delinquent girls tested by the Binet scale," by Dr. Louise Morrow and Dr. Olga Bridgman, Reprint from The Training School
Date:
1912
Pages: (1|2|3|4)
Source:
American Philosophical Society, ERO, MSC77,Ser1,Box35: Trait Files

&quote;Delinquent girls tested by the Binet scale,&quote; by Dr. Louise Morrow and Dr. Olga Bridgman, Reprint from The Training School

testing from eight to twelve years. The ages of the girls examined varied from nine to twenty years, the average being fourteen and one-half. So, in conclusion, of these sixty girls, only twenty at most will be able to take anything like a normal place in society, and of this twenty, some almost without doubt will fall at least as low as Morons. Yet unless other institutions are provided, at the age of twenty-one years they will be set adrift with no one knows what sort of future before them. [chart follows]
 
Summary of Tests
 
Physical Age

Mental Age

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

Total

5

   

1

 

1

     

1

     

3

6

         

2

           

2

7

1

1

     

2

2

2

1

4

 

1

14

8

       

3

1

3

1

 

1

   

9

9

1

3

 

2

5

1

2

1

2

     

17

10

   

1

1

2

1

       

1

 

6

11

       

1

   

1

       

2

12

           

1

         

1

15

     

1

1

2

   

1

     

5

Adult

                 

1

   

1

Total

2

4

2

4

13

9

8

5

5

6

1

1

60

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