The author predicts the six elemental tests will not vary with age in children old enough to apply themselves, roughly five to ten years¶

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q1 i? For want of experimental proof on children, the author predicts the records for the six tests would not vary with age among children from five to ten years according to brightness. → Seashore 1922

Evidence¶

Seashore 1922¶

Seashore, C. E. (1922). Elementary tests in psychology. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://archive.org

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This is the author's stated prediction, not a tested result: prior experimenters had concluded there is improvement with age, which he attributes to failure to realize the significance of apparently trivial conditions that make or unmake a test as elemental. No child data are reported here.

"I would make the prediction that we should probably find that, where the child is old enough to apply himself and does apply himself intelligently to the test—say from five to ten years of age, according to the brightness of the child—the records for these six tests which were tried on the blind would not vary with age."

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