Number of words: 267 The story now turns to Lewis Terman’s son, Frederick. You will see the name “Terman” all over Stanford’s buildings today. It is mostly Frederick who is being immortalized. The younger Terman, an electrical engineer, was a professor, a dean, and later the acting president of Stanford. As much as anyone, he … Read more
Number of words: 407 One of the reasons for the popularity of Terman’s test was that the scores were expressed as a catchy number — the intelligence quotient, or IQ. Psychologist William Stern had earlier proposed dividing a child’s “mental age” by the chronological age to get a “mental quotient” that would tell how smart … Read more
Number of words: 246 Feeling an outsider because of his intellect, Terman grew to be fascinated by the whole idea of intelligence and how it might be measured. After drifting through careers and ending up on the West Coast, Terman took a teaching job at Stanford in 1910. Founded only nineteen years earlier, Leland Stanford’s … Read more
Number of words: 438 Human resources experts categorize interview questions with terms such as “traditional” and “behavioral.” Traditional questions include the old standards that almost any American job seeker knows by heart. Where do you see yourself in five years? What do you do on your day off? What’s the last book you’ve read? What … Read more
Number of words: 393 Ambady had originally wanted to study what makes teachers effective. She suspected that nonverbal cues — body language and such — were important. To test this, she used some videotapes that had been made of a group of Harvard teaching fellows. She planned to show silent video clips to a group … Read more
Number of words: 63 As classicists point out, those video games update the ancient Greek legend of Oedipus and the sphinx. The sphinx devoured anyone who couldn’t answer her riddle: “What is it that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?” Excerpted from page number … Read more
Number of words: 135 “Let’s play a game of Russian roulette,” begins one interview stunt that is going the rounds at Wall Street investment banks. “You are tied to your chair and can’t get up. Here’s a gun. Here’s the barrel of the gun, six chambers, all empty. Now watch me as I put two … Read more
Number of words: 351 The benefits and dangers of actual medicine provide the hobson’s choice that Laurel Lee, a thirty-year-old Oregon mother with Hodgkin’s disease, has to make. Her hospital journal, walking through the Fire, published in 1977, shows her enduring not only the pain and vomiting and balding that are the normal consequences of … Read more
Number of words: 136 We tend to put a great deal of faith in travelling. Bacon said it was education for the younger, experience for the elder. It is “broadening,” we tell ourselves; it’s what we’ll do when we retire and our lives are our town. It grows us up, lets us change. Who has … Read more
Number of words: 592 Among the most interesting observations in the thirty volume between 1915 and 1941 are those Woolf made about diary-keeping itself. She is, in her diaries, one of the great critics of the genre. The activity is, after all, so queer, so ad hoc, and supposedly so private, that it doesn’t seem … Read more
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