Walter Lippmann · 1922
The Mental Age of Americans
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Q12JUDGMENT
Can numerical measures adequately determine a person's fitness for a position of responsibility?No. tests do not measure fitness. Argues in six New Republic essays that the Army tests do not measure inborn intelligence and that the claim of an average mental age of fourteen is nonsense.
New Republic, Oct 25 to Nov 1922 (History Matters, GMU; Disability History Museum has a transcription, not a listed repository).