From Ken Stewart, Warwick, NY:

The New York Times obituary in the October issue about "Joybubbles: The Peter Pan of Phone Hackers" raised a question for me. It mentioned that he was abused in a school for the blind and was pressured by his mother "to live up to his 172 IQ".
In those days, how was such a precise intelligence score established when there was no way, I believe, to replicate the testing conditions for a blind subject versus the general population? A timed test could have been independently read in braille for the verbal portion, but what about when vision was required for graphics presented in the performance portion of the test?
I was reminded of my own public school experience with group-administered IQ tests. In the sixth grade, with the test paper pressed up against my nose, I was able to do well, but it was slow going and I did not finish. In the 12th grade, I struggled mightily with the tiny print, but gave up after just a few questions, put down the pencil and folded my hands.
To this day, I wonder if the permanent student records at the Charles E. Gorton High School in Yonkers show that a pupil named Kenneth Stewart had a tested IQ of 11 or 12! I'd enjoy learning about other Ziegler readers' experiences with group-administered intelligence tests during their schooling.