Friday, February 22, 2008

Moron


Henry Herbert Goddard, a guy who advocated rounding up the feeble-minded in special colonies a century ago, coined the word moron, meaning a person with an IQ score in the 50-75 point range. That term is long gone from the medical lexicon, but there is still a term for a nearly identical IQ range: mild mental retardation.


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