In Wallin's St. Louis psycho-educational clinic, of 430 referred cases, 25.9% of 320 boys and 40% of 110 girls were found feeble-minded, with almost twice as many backward and retarded as feeble-minded.¶

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q2 i? Among 430 clinic-referred cases, feeble-mindedness was found in 25.9% of 320 boys and 40% of 110 girls, and backward/retarded children were almost twice as numerous as feeble-minded ones. → Kohs 1917

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Kohs 1917¶

Kohs, Samuel C. (1917). An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Literature on the Binet-Simon Scale (1913-1917), Part IV. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Annotated+Bibliography+of+Recent+Literature+on+the+Binet-Simon+Scale%22+Kohs

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Entry 416 annotates Wallin's 1915 St. Louis Board of Education psycho-educational clinic report: of "430 cases recommended to the clinic," "25.9% of the 320 boys and 40% of the 110 girls were found feeble-minded." Percentages are descriptive; no effect size is printed.

"Of 430 cases recommended to the clinic for examination, 25.9% of the 320 boys and 40% of the 110 girls were found feeble-minded. There were almost twice as many backward and retarded as feeble-mmded."

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Related Claims¶

• Applying the Stanford revision to selected children in four California cities, Williams classified 32% feeble-minded, 20% borderline, 22% dull normal, and 26% normal or superior. — related
• The Binet-Simon scale is a valuable diagnostic tool for classifying defective children when used by a trained examiner but dangerous in untrained hands — related