> > For some reason,I find this scientific stratification of unintelligence (or simply
> > retardation?) very interesting. Can you give us a list of which terms fall where? For instance,
> > would an "imbecile" be even worse off than an "idiot"?
>
> In order of decreasing intelligence:
>
> normal person
> moron
> imbecile
> idiot
>
>
> Very imprecise terms, based on subjective judgements - apart from the order, nobody agreed on what separated one from the next, and some practitioners added terms of their own.
> "One child called imbecile in the first certificate, is marked idiot in the second, feeble-minded in the third, and degenerate in the fourth."
>
> The whole system was, quite sensibly, chucked over eighty years ago, when Binet invented IQ.
>
> Paul

Do you have a text reference available for this particular classification system? It sounds like something kludged together to justify eugenics propaganda in the last century.

Wolfspirit