Why Did the 1916 Stanford-Binet Set an Upper Age Limit

question 30

Multiple Choice

Why did the 1916 Stanford-Binet set an upper age limit?

• A)Intelligence testing is needed only for school-age groups, not for adults.
• B)The IQs of all persons above the maximum possible mental age would have been less than 100.
• C)It was developed during World War I when men in their teens and twenties were being drafted.
• D)Acceptable reliability and validity could not be established for individuals older than 16.

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