8 A YARDSTICK that will measure your brain power! An "Instru ment" that can compute your In tellectual force as accurately as the horse-power of a motor car or the caliber of a rifle! Science believes it has found it in the Binet-Simon-Terman intelligence scale, which is being developed and which al ready is bringing surprising results in many American schools and courts. The scale, briefly, is a set of question naires for every age, beginning at the age of three, and going up, year by year, through 16, to the test for a "superior adult." It is the exact opposite of such tests as the famous Edison questionnaire. The Edison test showed only how much ac quired information a man had. The Binet test is designed not to get at the individual's fund of information, but to measure his powers of perception and his abstract reasoning power. The result, worked out by a mathe matical formula in which age is the sec ond equation, gives the Individual's in telligence quotient, or "I. Q.," as it is called in the technical scientific Jargon. If you are 10 years old and have the intelligence of a 10-year-old, you have a "normal I. Q.'? If you are 10 and have the intelligence of 6 years you are a "Low I. Q." If you are 10 and have the , intelligence of a 12-year-old, or a 15-year-old, you have a "High I. Q." By the practical application of these tests in public schools, it has been dis covered that age alone is not a sufficient tey to proper grading. It has been dis covered that mental age by no means always corresponds to physical age, and in many scientifically administered pub lic schools children are graded by their intelligence quotients rather than by their size and age. It is possible also, in many cases, to take a child of 12 or 14 years, and de termine with -great accuracy whether there is any use for him to study for a learned profession or whether he would be a sure predestined failure in it and would be better off by learning a trade or vice versa. It may find an exceed- icgly brilliant mind perhaps entirely unsuspected by parents and teachers in the child of parents who were manual laborers, and point the way to his achieving brilliant success in intellectual pursuits. Applied In the children's courts, and in courts for adults, too, It Is often dis- covered that an individual delinquent has a mind far retarded behind his physical age thus entirely changing the issue of his moral responsibility and the disposi tion to be made of his case. It is impossible to give all, or even a majority of the tests, on this page. They fill a book. But some typical ones for various ages may be given. Here are some you can try on your 3-year-old baby if you have one: Point, successively, to your nose, eyes, mouth, hair, and ask him to name each. Say "What is this?" Show him, successively, a key, a penny, t, closed knife, a watch, a pencil, and ask the same question. Show him the picture of the interior of a Dutch home which is reproduced on this page, and say, "Tell me what you see In this picture?" If there Is no re sponse say, "Show me the cat." Say, -"Show me the table." Repeat these questions, pointing to simple objects in the picture. Ho should be able to point out and name at least three things in response to the first question, if he is encouraged and it is repeated. Say, "What is your name?" Say, "Are you a little hoy or little girl?" . Say, "Can you say, 'Mamma'?" Say, "Now say, 'Nice kitty.' " Say, "Now say, 'I have a dog.'" The child Bhould be cbel to repeat a simple sentence of six to several syllables. If the child gets three-fourths or more of the questions correct, it is of average intelligence. If It misses many of them it is backward. If it answers them all correctly, it promises to be of superior mind. The methods of scoring are much more complicated, but that is the gen eral Idea. One of the tests of a child of 4 is to stow him a simply drawn square, a cross, a triangle, etc., and ask him to reproduce Uvea, wWle looking at them, one at a time, with a pencil. His lines will be wobbly and irregular, but he should get the essential outline. One of the tests for a 5-year-olS is to show him the line of drawings of pretty and ugly faces, also reproduced on this page, and ask him to point out the pretty rnd the ugly tnes. He should also be able to execute three orders; put keys on chair, bring yon a box, shut a door. A child of 6 should be able to tell you THE ; m. K Ilia 11 - ft. i jSt : .W " SI ' ' V J , i , ? . - t I W TO X m A D 6 j j m p ' h k a a r ina aha This diagram-code alphabet is a test for the superior adult. After studying the diagram for five minutes can yoa read the lines below il without refer ring back to diagram? what features are missing in the "miss ing feature" drawing reproduced on ihis page. He should tell his right from his left hand, count 13 pennies, distinguish between pennies, nickles and dimes. He . should be able to tell you what he will do if it is raining when he starts to school; if he suddenly finds the house on fire; if he is going some place and misses his car. A child of 8 should be able to count up to 20. He should be able to tell you the proper thing to do if he has broken something that belongs to someone else; ii he is on his way to school and notices that he is in danger of being tardy; if a playmate hits him without meaning to do it. He should be able to tell in what way the following things are alike; wood and coal; apple and peach; iron and sil ver; ship and automobile. He should be able to tell you in his own words what the following things are and "what they do": balloon, tiger, football, soldier. A child of 9 should be able to work the baseball test. Show him a simply drawn circle, with an opening in it, like the one reproduced on this page. Tell him it is a ball field, , surrounded by a circular fence, with a gate in it. There is grass all over it. A ball has been lost. He doesn't know how or from what direc- IRISH - - (Continued From Page 3.) He had no use for it. And he wasn't the 1 kind of old guy you could talk to. Irish thought he must have had a hard time in his life. Ah, well, he was entitled to a good time now. Let him have his own way. Irish could always make money. It didn't matter so much, after all, did it? The only thing that hurt him was that he would 1 never draw the Stars and Stripes through the green Irish tights. And he could have if he'd had only six. months. Irish was aware now as he answered the bell that his bolt was shot. The high pitch of concentration had gone. With the dropping of the Italian, and the Ital ian's escape, he had reached the high point of his fighting, and now must go down. His punch would be heavy still, but it would lack the terrific speed,' the " speed of shock, that carries a knockout. And the effect of the cumulation of blows from the Italian sharpshooter was beginning to tell. Through the bruises SUNDAY OREGONIAX. PORTLAND. DECEMBER 31. 1922 u. :Sv:-?:-:-.-; -J" '-''j' m A Samuel Rzeschewski, 10-year-old Polish-Jewish wizard, could easily meet some of the tests for a superior adult, yet he might "fall down" like any other child on some of the tests for a boy of his own age. Below A 6-year-old child, should te able to tell you what features or parts are missing from these, pictures. ,- tion. He is to go in and hunt for it. Ask him how he will hunt for it to make sure of finding it. Ask him to take a pencil and trace the way he would hunt. Only two answers, drawn with the pencil, are -correct. Either back and forth in par allel lines until the field is covered; or better still, in a series of concentric circles until the field is covered. He By Bonn Byrne on his body and neck and the puffiness of his face, energy was flowing out of him like water from some pierced vessel. Into ten rounds of whirlpool fighting he had foolishly put everything, gambled energy and hands and brain. And he sensed with a great sinking of his heart that Chip was drawing ahead of him now, drawing away from him in the contest, with the inevitableness of the winner drawing away from the beaten man, forging ahead while the other plods hopelessly on. .' . ,.- With the quick telepathy of the ring ' the Italian knew Irish had ' cracked, that he was gone. , And now the energy he had saved by making his man come to him . he could use, he must use. For that knockdown in the tenth was a high score of points against. him. -And he was afraid of a draw. He would have to fight Irish again. ' Not again! He must knock him out. - Four times the gong crashed, the end and opening of a round, and the end and opening of another round. Dully Irish CuriousBW Authentic Scientific wrain Wests to Try on Yourself to Learn Just How Intelligent and Sharp-Witted A 5-year-old child should be able to tea which of these figures are pretty ' and which are ugly. should be able to give date of week, month and year. He should be able to make simple change. A child of 12 should be able to give correct explanations, in his own words, of the meaning of: pity, revenge, charity, envy. Justice. He should be able to ar range correctly the following sentences, shown him in plain capital printed let ters, one at a time: "For the started &u we country early at hour"; "To asked paper my teacher correct I my"; "A de fends dog good his bravely master." He, should be able to describe the "stormy meaning" of the picture of a woman cry ing and a man leaving her at bottom left of this page. Satisfactory answers would fce: ,' "The man has to go away for a long time, maybe to war, and Bhe is crying because she is afraid he won't return." Or, "He has proposed and she rejected him, and she is crying because she hated went to his corner. The splash of water in his face did not revive him, nor the ' current from the whipping towels, nor the slapping of his legs. "Don't let him knock you out, Irish. Hold him. Only two more rounds. Don't let him knock you out." Maher's fierce whisper hit at his ear drums. So it was as bad as that, hey? "Hold on to him, kid. Don't fight him. Hold him.'" , , The bell rang. They pushed him to his seat. Wearily he moved toward the center of the ring. . "Look out!" some one called. The Italian had sprung from his cor ner with the spring of a cat. And Irish felt surprlsedly that he had been struck with two terrific hammers on the Jaw. And as he. wondered who had hit him his knees buckled surprisingly and he was on his hands and knees on the floor. And he heard someone say: ". . . three . . .. four . . . ." He strug gled to his feet. Somewhere Maher was shouting: "Take .the count, Irish." Irish dully wondered what he meant. And now Chip was in front of him, concentrated, poised. And once more the hammer crashed on the Jaw. And he tumbled toJthe boards on his side. You Actually A 3-year-old chitd 'Should be able to pick out and name three simple ob jects in this picture. to disappoint him." Or any plausible imaginary story that really fits the pic ture. . A child of 14 should be able to give a logical answer to the following: "My neighbor has been having queer visitors. First a doctor came 'o his house, then a lawyer, then a preacher or priest. What do you think happened there?" The test for an average adult and a 16-year-old boy or girl is the same. He should be able to supply the morals of fables and symbolic stories, not too com plicated. He should be able to explain the real difference between the following abstract things: laziness; poverty and misery; character and reputation. He should be able to repeat, backward, six figures which are given him once orally, at- 4-7-1-9-5-2. Before they are given, in measured tones, he should be told v-hat is expected of him. He should be able to repeat with absolute accuracy in every word a simple, intelligible sentence, slowly spoken to him, of 28 words in length. The "superior adult" should be able to repeat backward eight figures, slowly given him orally, as 7-2-5-3-4-6-9-6. He should study, for less than five minutes, the diagram eode alphabet illustrated on this page, and then, without copying it eff, but carrying the whole thing in his head, he should be able to write and read sentences in the code. The tests here given, for the various He was very dull, very dazed. For a while he knew nothing. And then he understood; the referee pumping his hand up and down and the roar of the crowd. . "Eight!" As he moved he felt the ropes," and blindly he groped for them, pulling him self to his feet somehow. About him the din surged. The referee stepped back. The Italian was pawing at the referee's arm, protesting. Irish under stood. Chip wanted tho fight stopped; didn't want to hit him any more. Ah, he was a good kid. Chip was. And then the ring slithered under neath him; the hand grasping the rope grew lifeless, let go, and the lights went out for him, and Irish crashed forward on his face. And Ice was at the back of his neck, and the lights were up, and the crowds were milling and Chip was shaking his hand. - ."You fine fellow, Irish;, you good kid!" , . . , "You're all right, too, Guinea!" , " 'Sail right, Irish." -, " 'Sail right, Chip." . "He's all right, Chip is," Irish said, as he watched him go across the ring. Are. ftSpi f; ; -n 'f i' -Vi It o - - rrriiiiw'm ifi'n rimin ir nl i ir i i i n ii m-iim A 4-year-old child should be able to draw some of these simple figures, beginning with the cross, square and circle. ages, are only few of many. If you are interested in getting them all, any big library or bookstore will supply you a text book. Even in complete form, they are not always absolutely conclusive. An individual who misses a lot of them may turn out to be a genius instead of an idiot. But in the great majority of cases they are believed to give accurate results. Professor Forest A. Kingsbury of the University 'of Chicago's psychology de partment, however, is not keen about the Binet test. He says that psychological tests might hide real genius. "The A riu3 subject may be the laziest in the sroup, whereas the fellow who thinks the Russian debacle is a vaudeville act may be diligent, ambitious and kind to his folks," he says. "Psychology has suf fered from exploiters and faddists. Un fortunately, no general test has been de vised to measure7 the ability of an adult. We can only make vague classifications." ' Maher put his dressing gown around him, helped him to his feet. A great burst of cheering weltered In the gar den. "Do you hear the hand Chip's getting, Danny? I'm glad of It. He's a good lad. I'm glad they're cheering him." "Him hell!" Maher bawled. "They're cheering you." The old man looked at the battered face above the blue serge suit. "Well," he said, "it must have been the grand fight entirely!" "It was a great fight," Irish grinned, "and a good man won.'1 "Meaning yourself?", "No, meaning the Guinea." "So you were beat, eh?" the old man Jeered. "I never thought you were much good at It." "Ah, I don't know." And Irish grinned again. - ' . r .-. "Tell me," the old man snapped, "did you bring me the Advocate?" "I did." And Irish handed it over. " 'Tls a wonder you remembered it," the old man snarled. "And the fine lac ing you're after taking!" And Irish grinned again. Wasn't he a queer, grumpy old man! (Copyright, 1322, by Donn Byrne.). .