MENTAL FACULTIES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 125, 28 May 1936, Page 2

MENTAL FACULTIES

AGE NO DISABILITY At. the 97(h annual meeting of the American Association for the Advance- | incut of {Science, held in St. Louis the { last, week in December, a group of j natural scientists examined the coni- . mon assumption that because one had I passed the “prime of life’’ he is dej dining mentally, and branded it “uni fortunate libel. ’ ’ : Thus workers in .their forties, fifties | and sixties will nu doubt be glad to j learn that direct eiidence is at last I available disproving the frequent infer- ■ ence of mental decline as a concomitant of age. I Dr. Irving Lorgc. of Teachers’ College, Columbia University, gained his fads from examinations of New York unemployed between the ages of 20 and 70. When computing a graph of a person’s mental ability through life “a correction must be applied for the penalty such tests place upon age,’’ he said. “When this is done the seeming ; curve of decline becomes a curve of ! mental plateau or p\en of mental I grow th.”