American psychologist Lewis Terman (1877-1956), 1916 inventor the modern IQ scale (0-100); a Binet-Simon scale focused on testing the ‘average’ student, using William Stern's 1912 proposal that an individual's intelligence be measured as an MQ (test-age/actual-age). [1] |
IQ of 0 = no intelligence
IQ of 100 = average intelligence (of a normal child)
“I am four years old and I can read any English book. I can say all the Latin substantives and adjectives and active verbs besides fifty-two lines of Latin poetry. I can cast up any sum in addition and can multiply by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11. I can also say the pence table. I read French a little and know the clock.”
=100-110 (Copernicus's IQ, as a child, according to Terman)
=160 (Copernicus' overall lifetime IQ, according to Catherine Cox, 1926)
=185 (Copernicus' overall lifetime IQ, according to Tony Buzan and Raymond Keene, 1994)
=173 (Copericus' overall lifetime IQ, according to the mean of the Cox-Buzan estimates)
=200 (Copernicus's overall lifetime IQ, according to intuitive placement on the 2010 grouping of the 35-known EoHT 200+ range IQs)
French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911): in 1899 was appointed to the Commission for the Retarded, a repercussion of a new French law that mandated school for children ages six to fourteen, whose aim was to develop a test to differentiate between normal and abnormal children, so to be able assign each to different classrooms. [14] | French psychologist Theodore Simon (1872-1961): was an intern at the asylum in Perray-Vaucluse, studying abnormal children, during which time he began to work with Binet to develop a test that could measure intellectual development of children ages 3-12. | German psychologist William Stern (1871-1938): reviewed the work of Binet (and others), and developed the idea of expressing intelligence in the form of a single number, the "mental quotient" (1912) as one’s mental age divided by one’s chronological age: [15] |
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