Midwest Book Review
“Stephen Murdoch is a journalist who has done his historical pick and shovel work which should make him the envy of any publication or instructional historian … Murdoch is not against the concept of testing as an assessment tool, as a matter of fact he feels in some ways that it is the best of a number of very bad systems that preceded it. … Perhaps [the] best thing about Stephen Murdoch is his tone which is highly interested, and at the same time laid back. He finds it just so interesting that … many of today’s IQ tests are still based on a number of decisions that a handful of men made in a smoky little hotel room in New Jersey right before America entered WW I, in the spring of 1917. These decisions, in light of our 21st century understanding, seem ludicrous at best, and monstrously discriminating at worse.”