Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining. - Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann: "Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining."

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Abstraction	Because	Complicated	Course
Defining	Different	Easy	Exceedingly
Expressed	Foot	Intelligence	Length
Make	Measure	Mistake	Nobody
Notion	Numbers	Pair	Quite
Results	Ruler	Scales	Sort
Succeeded	Test	Thinking	Weight

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