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Recruits' Mental Capacity

Volume 359: debated on Tuesday 2 April 1940

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asked the Secretary of State for War whether he has considered representations that tests are available which gauge the mental capacity of recruits; whether any such tests have been carried out; and, if so, how many recruits have been found to be defective and what proportion these bear to the numbers examined?

It is not considered practicable, in present conditions, to adopt a system of tests for gauging the mental capacity of recruits, and no such tests have been carried out.