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Measurement in Mental Deficiency

The Blake Marsh Lecture for 1969, delivered before the Royal Medico-Psychological Association, 4 February 1969

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

L. S. Penrose
L. S. Penrose*
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The University of London, Kennedy-Galton Centre, Harperbury Hospital, near St. Albans Herts
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The study of mental deficiency can be said to be based upon measurement. It is biometrical in a way that the rest of psychiatry is not, because the ultimate criteria for diagnosis of mental defect (or subnormality) are quantitative. Some kind of intelligence measurement or rating is always implied, and even at the lowest level quite often a measurement is actually made. In this lecture I shall only be able to outline my subject by giving examples.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 116 , Issue 533 , April 1970 , pp. 369 - 375
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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