Excerpt from Intelligence Testing in a Toronto Public School
If the parent urged the teacher to be more specific as to the degree of brightness or dullness, the teacher would probably find difficulty in giving a satisfactory answer. He might compare him in brightness or dullness with the extremes of his class; or he might make the comparison between the child and other children well known to both parent and teacher. If the question, instead of being one concerning intelligence, were one as to the height or weight of the child, there would be no difficulty in giving an exact answer. By measurement the height or weight could be exactly determined, even in such small units as eighth-inches or ounces. An intelligence test is an attempt to apply exact measurement to mental processes; just as length, area, volume, weight, temperature, etc., are all subject to exact measurement in terms of certain units.
Before discussing the tests in detail, the meaning of intelligence must be explained. In educational psychology, different investigators attach somewhat different meanings to the word.
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