Lewis Terman

"There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals."

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Source: Lewis Madison Terman (1947). “Genetic Studies of Genius ...: The gifted child grows up; twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group, by L. M. Terman and M. H. Oden”

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Lewis Terman

Lewis Terman

Psychologist

Lewis Terman was a pioneering psychologist known for his research on intelligence and the development of the Stanford-Binet IQ test.

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