Are intelligence tests outmoded?

Is VVI pacing outmoded?

Pacing is a common clinical procedure. The permanent implant rate in the United Kingdom is lower than in other Western countries. The last World Survey' showed a new implant rate of 148 per million population per year (8346 systems) in the United Kingdom. This compares with 421 in Germany, 413 in France, 359 in the United States, and 175 in Spain. In the United Kingdom, the pacing mode was simp...

Integrity--an outmoded concept?

We’ve heard a lot in the news recently about “integrity,” or the lack thereof. Although the word has been used most often in politics, it has surfaced in business, medicine, law and even in relation to the United States site for the Winter Olympics. I’ve pondered what this word really means. It is associated with images of “honesty,” “a handshake is as good as my bond,” “keeping promises,” “hon...

Scholastic and Intelligence Tests.

Tests of Machine Intelligence

Although the definition and measurement of intelligence is clearly of fundamental importance to the field of artificial intelligence, no general survey of definitions and tests of machine intelligence exists. Indeed few researchers are even aware of alternatives to the Turing test and its many derivatives. In this paper we fill this gap by providing a short survey of the many tests of machine i...

Intelligence Tests Versus Teacher's Estimate

by the examiner in obtaining some special information about retarded children. The two subjects specially described are pupils in the high sixth grade of a large public school. The teacher of their class gave a detailed account of difficulties concerning a number of backward children and was particularly perplexed regarding Anna and Roy. In her opinion neither one could accomplish the work of t...