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The Measurement of Intelligence

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MANY circumstances invest the present volume LtL with signal importance. Of such an unusual magnitude has been deemed the investigation which it reports, that a special grant was assigned to it by the Carnegie Corporation; and for the last four years Thorndike has so devoted himself to it, as even to give up for its sake his university teaching. Moreover, as indicated above, his entire staff has been collaborating with him.

The Measurement of Intelligence.

By Edward L. Thorndike E. O. Bregman M. V. Cobb Ella Woodyard, and the staff of the Division of Psychology of the Institute of Educational Research of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Pp. xxvi + 616. (New York: Teachers' College, Columbia University, n.d.) n.p.

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SPEARMAN, C. The Measurement of Intelligence . Nature 120, 577–578 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120577a0

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