Hi, I have read about the Nuremberg Trials and the IQ-Tests conducted on the defendants. All of them scored quite high, as seen here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials#Intelligence_tests_and_psychiatric_assessments
I also found out that they did one of the earliest forms of this test:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wechsler_Adult_Intelligence_Scale
Now my question is: Where can i find this exact test? My research only brought up news articles and so on, I would like to have this exact test if possible and maybe do it, for comparison.
Thank you very much for your help!
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when I first saw it I thought (as I'm sure most people do) that it was completely ridiculous how they portrayed thermopolae, but whilst reading Herodotus' Histories, I saw that he describes how the Spartans threw two Persian diplomats into a well. this bears a striking resemblance to this scene, and it got me thinking: what if it is not as completely historically inaccurate as i previously thought. So what parts, if any, are accurate in 300?
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For most countries, the English name is at least somewhat similar to the name in its native language. But 'Germany' is so different from 'Deutschland' that they clearly have different origins. Where did the English word 'Germany' originate?
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I'm not sure where this idea came from but I seem to remember something about this and i can't find anything online to back this up, can anybody help?
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Alaska and Russia are incredibly close to each other, did the Russians just never look east?
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I'm interested in the cuisine of southern American slaves between 1760-1860
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When we think of Super Weapons, we often think of the Atomic Bomb in World War II. There were other programs, like the US B-29 or the German V Rocket program that cost significantly more money and were serious technological advancements. Let's consider a "superweapon" a program that cost over 2 Billion (USD) and represented a major increase in weapons capabilities (nukes, rockets, pressurized aircraft, etc...). What were the major superweapons developed in WWII?
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Bill Clinton, famously, never won a majority of the popular vote. Ross Perot won 18.9% in 1992 and 8.4% in 1996. Is there any clear evidence Perot's candidacy allowed Clinton to carry specific states that helped Clinton to win the presidency?
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I know that the silver used in Viking artifacts came from as far away as India, but what mix of metals was typical of the alloy?
How pure was it? Was the main other metal copper, as coin and sterling silver are today?
I'm interested in these questions because the copper content of silver has a big impact on the metalwork techniques one can use with it.
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I read somewhere that ancient Roman cuisine was closer to Vietnamese than to Italian cuisine. Garum (or fish sauce) was given as an example. Is this true and if yes then why did it change after the fall of Rome?
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Hello and welcome to the tenth edition of our ongoing series of Rules Roundtables! This project is an effort to demystify what the rules of the Subreddit are, to explain the reasoning behind why each rule came into being, provide examples and explanation why a rule will be applicable in one case and not in another. Finally, this project is here to get your feedback, so that we can hear from the community what rules are working, what ones aren't, and what ones are unclear.
Today, the topic for discussion is our rule on Civility! This rule exists to ensure that debate on /r/AskHistorians is focused on competing historical interpretations, and does not devolve into personal insults or ad hominem attacks; and that users treat one another with courtesy and mutual positive regard. The rule reads:
Civility
All users are expected to behave with courtesy and politeness at all times. We will not tolerate racism, sexism, or any other forms of bigotry. This includes Holocaust denialism. Nor will we accept personal insults of any kind.
The rule on civility is quite important to us, so much so that it's our first rule and has been referred to (not entirely jokingly) as our Prime Directive. That's because the entire intent of AskHistorians is to answer questions about the past, and the historical arena can be a contentious place. The civility rule is important to make sure that we keep answers and conversations at a professional, academic level.
##Why do you need a civility rule?
Reasonable people can disagree about historical interpretations, and people can get quite passionate about their "favorite" or preferred interpretation of historical events.
This can operate on a couple of levels:
Among professional historians, there's competition among interpretations of history that occurs on an ongoing basis, and in many fields this takes on an almost generational basis, as the younger scholars of _________ field revise and take issue with interpretations that the older scholars of that field grew up with. These reinterpretations of history, or revisions of history, can make or break professional careers, which means that debate can get quite heated at times and that part of training new historians is teaching them how to debate respectfully.
In the non-academic world people can get quite passionate and emotional over issues of historical memory, especially with regard to recent history. (This is one of the reasons we have our 20-Year Rule, but I digress.) How we understand, talk about, and memorialize historical events such as the American Civil War, the Holocaust, the atomic bombings of Japan, the Civil Rights movement, and others like them is difficult and contentious, and feelings can run high on all sides of an issue. This is one of several reasons why we require our users to ask questions neutrally.
##What do you mean by civility, anyhow?
Some of this is covered in the text of the rule above, but the major points are:
Beyond those key points of the rule, we generally will remove content that is overly sarcastic, that attacks a user rather than the user's ideas, or that is hostile to an individual user or is hostile to a group of people.
##Wait, so how do you decide if someone is being uncivil?
More than perhaps any of our other rules, moderating based on civility requires us to take a bit of a "know it when we see it" approach. We realize that our user base on AskHistorians is global, and that standards of what's considered "bad language" vary from country to country, and that language issues can cause people to seem rude without the intent of giving offense. We will also use at a poster's comment history to see whether they have shown a pattern of incivility using their account, to decide whether they fall on the side of "possible misunderstanding" or "usually abrasive." To be clear, this is not the only metric we use, but if the user history demonstrates a pattern of being abusive, we take that into account.
That said, though, we tend to err on the side of removing content if we think it's not being posted in good faith or if we believe the intent is to mock another user. This brings us back to the central point of AskHistorians, which is to get answers about the past; and that doing so requires us to be able to be civil in our interactions with one another.
##OK fine, but how do I argue with people if I can't call them a poopy head?
Well, you don't argue with people -- you argue with their arguments. If you happen to subscribe to a different theory about how a historical event happened, or how it should be interpreted, share it! And make sure that you can cite your sources, answer follow-up questions and, in general, follow the other rules of this subreddit. Disagreeing with the interpretation is fine, just don't let that extend into disagreement with the person.
##I have some thoughts about this rule, where do I share them?
We welcome thoughts about the civility rule, and invite you to share them in the comments below. The point of the Rules Roundtable series is to get feedback from the community on our rules and policies, after all.
##What should I do if I see people being uncivil in a thread?
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##I think that a comment of mine was removed unfairly, what do I do?
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The fact that the National Socialists called themselves that rather than Fascists indicates that they believed their movement to be something different than Italian Fascism. I am aware that anti-semitism was a uniquely Nazi spin on Mussolini's fascism, so I would like to know about differences like this.
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There are references to melancholia as far back as Socrates, but I'd like to know when it actually became documented in history as an ailment to be cured. Did some cultures recognise it earlier than others?
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I've heard the story that crocodile dung was used as a contraceptive aid, but I admit I have a hard time believing it - wouldn't the smell alone prevent copulation from occurring? Do we know of any contraceptives, effective or not, used in ancient Egypt? What about abortifacients?
I realize "ancient Egypt" is pretty broad. If you're able to narrow down, I'm interested in the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age, but I'd accept answers from any period.
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Both Vietnam and North Korea are Asian communist states in the Soviet bloc, yet both evolved differently.
Why is it that Ho Chi Minh never managed to rose to the megalomaniacal status of his North Korean counterpart Kim Il-sung, who turned his state into a de-facto hereditary kingdom?
Vietnam, while officially communist, now opens its markets and sort of practices some form of capitalism, not unlike China. (Perhaps the same can be said for Laos, Vietnam's neighbour?) Whereas North Korea is still the paranoid state that Kim Il-sung left it when he died two decades ago.
Cuba has Fidel Castro, yet thogh Castro has handed power over to his brother Raul, the Castros never seem to have achieved the cult status of the Kims in North Korea either. And now like Vietnam, Cuba has also normalized ties with the United States.
For that matter, how is that that other East European states in the Soviet bloc escape the fate of becoming just like North Korea? (Maybe Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania came closest?)
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Both Italy and Germany had pioneering jet programs, the German He178 and Italian Caproni Campini N.1 being the first jets to fly under only jet power. So did they ever exchange technology and research to further develop their jet research?
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