Alternate Average Adult tests are misplaced: 50% of AI 1 failures and 46% of AI 2 failures came from students with IQ above 110¶

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q2 i? Alternate tests for the Average Adult group showed much higher failure percentages than regular tests in both classes, and many failures came from above-average-IQ students, suggesting they belong in the Superior Adult group. → Caldwell 1919

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Caldwell 1919¶

Caldwell, Helen Hubbert. (1919). Adult Tests of the Stanford Revision Applied to College Students. The Journal of Educational Psychology, X(10). https://doi.org/10.1037/h0074484

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Failure-rate analysis (Table III) across the 48 subjects shows alternate Average Adult tests produced far more failures than regular tests; contrary to Terman's report, "50% of the failures on AI 1 and 46% of those on AI 2 were by students whose I 0 was above 110."

"she did not find 60 to 75 percent of average adults passing, and few if any superior adults failing, as did Terman, for 50% of the failures on AI 1 and 46% of those on AI 2 were by students whose I 0 was above 110."

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