Author: Hans Havermann
Date: 07:07:50 04/20/98
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On April 19, 1998 at 16:06:07, Fernando Villegas wrote: >and intensive research of these matter was conducted by Dr R. Ochse in a >book entitled "Before the Gates of Excellence", Cambridge University >Press, where he quotes a research made in 1926 where is proved that >"historical genuses were assesed as being above normal -IQ, ranging >from 120 to 200, with a mean of 158,9..". I wonder if this refers to Catherine M. Cox's 1926 "The early mental traits of three hundred geniuses". Stephen Jay Gould [The Mismeasure of Man, 1981] writes that this book "must rank as a primary curiosity within a literature already studded with absurdity". Gould's critique of Cox's "hopelessly flawed" study begins on page 184.
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