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University Daily Kansan, October 15, 1982
Myths cloud IQ tests' results, profs say
By BRET WALLACE Staff Reporter
Intrinsic interest in IQ tests has caused the formation of many myths about what the tests measure, an educational psychology said yesterday.
The assistant professor, Robert Herrington, said that psychologists had looked at many myths about the brain and found that not actually believe all of them.
Herington and Darcy Buehler, Great Bend graduate student, recently completed a survey that tested the myths that clinical psychologists, psychologists, teachers and the general public believed about the tests.
The need for the survey arose because there were people talking about the myths of intelligence tests and many of them did not have facts
to back up what they were saying, he said.
Problems were being created by interpretations of test scores as well; children with low IQ scores are sometimes put in special education classes, he said. Other, less obvious problems, are also arising.
Herington said the survey, which was administered to 56 people in each group, consisted of questions about 55 myths. The list of myths was compiled and written by psychologists and from personal observations.
MANY OF the myths have become fact because they are based on actual research, but many more are implicit theories that are not based on any research and just reflect the way people think, he said.
The implicit theories are reflected in lay people's beliefs more than in the other groups that are trained in the
uses of the tests, he said.
Herington said that lay people thought that everyone had an equal opportunity to perform well on the team. Some groups know that is not true, he said.
For example, blacks traditionally score lower on IQ tests. Most psychologists think that the difference does not be because blacks are less intelligent, he said.
That points out one of the largest controversies surrounding the tests now — the question of whether they eliminate against different ethnic groups.
Jerome Sattler, professor of educational psychology at San Diego State University, said the tests were a good measure of cognitive ability if comparisons were not made between cultures.
"Blacks who score higher on intelligence tests will do better in
school than blacks who score lower." Sattler said. "But comparisons between different cultures will not work with racialized outside factors that come into play."
MUCH OF the work in designing new IQ tests now is geared toward implementing cultural fairness in them, Herington said.
Work also is being done that will help clear up another myth, he said. Most people think that the tests are good measures of progress made during a program, but others disagree strongly. Psychologists are developing tests that will measure progress. Hering asked it.
Even with the weaknesses of the test, all of the groups thought the tests were the best measure of intelligence unable and should be continued, he said.
$3,000 helps bygones be bygones Oilman apologizes to Hardage
By United Press International
WICHITA—Wichita oilman Jim Hersberger yesterday sent written apologies and a $3,000 political donation to Republican Sam Hardage to quell reports that he is bitter over a past business deal with the candidate.
The prominent businessman, a registered Republican, also said his past association with Hardage when they were two of nine owners of the Wichita Wings professional soccer team had not been eligible for the gubernatorial candidate now.
Hershberger was responding to recent newspaper reports that have typified him and other influential Wichita businessmen as enemies, or at least important supporters, of Hardy because of dealings they had with him in 1980.
At that time, a group of nine men rescued the financially troubled Wings from folding. They included Hardage, Hershberger, Frank Carney, co-founder of the Pizza Hut empire; Air Midwest executive Mike Freeman; Robert Beren, an oilman and former president of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce; and K.C. "Buck" Alley, a lumberman-building supplier dealer.
Although the reports have said many of the owners were either withholding their support for Hardge or extending it grudgingly, Hersbberger said he was not one of them and did not know who was.
The Wichita Eagle-Beacon yesterday published a story that included portions of letters written in 1981 by Herbberger to some of the Wings owners. THE LETTERS portrayed him as angry with Hardage for paying his
share of the purchase price of the soccer team late, for making the Wings pay rent on office space in one of Hardage's downtown buildings and for throwing a party for the team and not inviting some of the owners.
But Herbsberger yesterday said that the letters were mailed in a fit of anger and that he regretted writing them. In a letter he mailed to Hardage yesterday, Herbsberger extended an apology for revelations in the newspaper account.
"In reading the morning paper it appears that correspondence previously circulated among the original Nine Wings general partners has been released to the press. I'm sorry," said the letter.
Hershberger said he had invited Hardage to his house three weeks ago to discuss their differences and had furtherHardage then that he would support him.
"At that time I promised you that because of your campaign platform and for being the man you are in settling our past differences, a check for $1,000 would be given at the end of your campaign. I'm now attaching my check in the amount of $3,000," the letter said.
DURING THE primary election period, Hershberger contributed $3,000
Hershberger said the bad feelings between Hardage and other Wings owners had much to do with Hardage's inability to keep up with manager Bent Kelling. In November
- the maximum allowed by an individual under law - to the campaign of Dave Owen, who finished second to Hardage in the primary. Other Wings' owners also made contributions to Owen's campaign.
1980, Hardage turned over his role as managing partner to Carney because, Hershberger said, the owners "made a choice between Kentling and Hardage." In May 1981, Hardage ended his part in the ownership.
Hershberger scoffed at reports that said Hardage bought into the team. "I thought they were a good team," he said.
"I think he was going to spend $50,000 for political reasons, he could have spent it better on something else by buying into a soccer team," he said.
"Literally speaking, this person could go all the way in politics, even to
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Hardge told the newspaper he was not forced out of the team but resigned because of lack of time. He said he refused to pay $2,000 of his share of the job when he resigned because he did not want to invest any more money.
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He said he invited all the owners to two parties he threw for the team and paid his share of the costs. And everyone who owned them are still bitter over the incident, Hardge maintains a majority of them have contributed to his campaign.
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Mid-fall tension causes rise in child runaways
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
Running off to join the circus may have lost some of its luster, but kids still leave home, and this time of the year is the most popular time for runaways to leave, the Douglas County juvenile supervisor said yesterday.
The supervisor, Mark Gleeson, said school and family pressures became more intense around mid-fall, and caused many children to run away.
"THEY BORROW $10 from a couple of friends, or $10 from one friend, and they can get by for awhile," he said. "They pretty fragral with their money."
Gleeson said most runaways left home without much money, but some took enough to support themselves for at least awhile.
"The number of runaways in Law-
rence is probably not higher than in
other cities this size," he said. "But for
run away it is certainly a pro-
blem."
Melody Campbell, Douglas County court services supervisor, said 42 children ran away from home in 1981 in Douglas County. No numbers for 1982 are available, but, she said, the number of runaways in Douglas County decreased from more than 190 in 1978 to 42 in 1981.
Most Lawrence runways go to stay with friends, but some have been known to stay in KU residence hall lounges, or even in the parks, he said.
"We only keep the totals of runaways that go through court," she said. "There may have been other cases
where the child said he would return to his home."
After police find a runaway, the district locates and notifies his parents, she said. They can force the child to go back to his home through a trial, but only if the parents press charges, Campbell said.
Runaways leave home for a great many reasons, she said, ranging from not getting their way at home, to being physically or sexually abused.
Judy Culey, coordinator of The Shelter Inc., a temporary home for troubled children, said most runaways endure problems than being a runaway.
“**RUNNING AWAY** is often just one thing that runaways are into,” she said. “ Their running away is the result of a life or doing life, or doing poorly in school.”
The Shelter is not a permanent situation, but it is being worked out, she said.
"For some it's a cooling-off period for others it's a more stressful wait," she said. "Sometimes the family that it cannot get back together again."
Since the economy has gone downhill, she said, more cases that could be described as serious have been coming in no definite correlation could be drawn.
THE SHEI TTER has room for 10 people, and is usually full or near full, she said. Most of the children they get are from Douglas or Franklin counties, but no drop-ins are accepted. All residents have to be brought by the police and approved by the district court.
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