Because many delinquent girls learned quickly and accurately, the article concludes moral defects must be partially explained on grounds other than inferior mentality¶

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q1 i? The author argues that since a large number of girls of both races showed the ability to learn quickly, accurately and extensively across repeated trials, the moral defects of delinquents must be partially explained on other grounds than inferior mentality. → Baldwin 1913

Evidence¶

Baldwin 1913¶

Baldwin, B. T. (1913). The learning of delinquent adolescent girls as shown by a substitution test. The Journal of Educational Psychology, IV(6), 317-332. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0069968

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The author's interpretive conclusion drawn from the substitution-test performance of the institutional sample; it is an argument rather than a tested result, offered alongside the claim that inferior measured mentality helps explain some commitments.

"But since a large number of girls of both races have the ability to learn quickly, accurately and extensively, as shown by repeated trials for a given interim, it follows that the moral defects of delinquents must be partially explained on other grounds than inferior mentality."

Discussion¶

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