Laboratory Report 1
This is Dr Strauss here. I am starting to keep track of our new experiment, Charlie Gordon. I will be tracking Charlie's behaviour throughout the entire experiment. Our new experiment has an IQ of 68 and he is 37 years old. I hear that he wants to be smart. Well, we'll give him a chance. Charlie was introduced to me by his teacher at the adult night school, Miss Kinnian.
Laboratory Report 2
Our experiment did his first test today. It was a Rorschach test, a psychological test used to measure personality traits and general intelligence. He got jittery when he heard the word test. I think that he thought he was going to fail the test. The subject has low self-esteem. When our tester asked him to say out what he saw on the paper, he said he only saw an inkblot. We gave Charlie two other cards with red and blue ink spilled on it. He still said that he only saw an inkblot.
Laboratory Report 3
Today, we had a Thematic Apperception test on Charlie. We asked him to tell a story of the picture but he said "How can you tell stories about people you never met?" He refused to cooperate with us on this test. After that, we had Charlie race with Algernon, a white mouse which we had increased the IQ of. Charlie lost every race. He seemed disheartened.
Laboratory Report 4
Today is the big day. We had just finished operating on Charlie to increase his IQ permanently. We had to allow Charlie to rest after the operation. He seemed awfully determined to become smart.
Laboratory Report 5
Charlie is impatient that he is not getting smarter and he is getting frustrated at the Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Tests. He is also quite frustrated at racing with Algernon as he keeps losing to him. We placed a television to let Charlie listen to it while he is asleep.
Laboratory Report 6
Today, Charlie beat Algernon at racing! However, he lost the other three rounds as he was too excited. He seems very attracted to Algernon. Charlie's Progress Report is getting better-- his spelling and grammar too. This is a significant breakthrough.
Laboratory Report 7
Charlie's grammar, spelling and punctuation is getting better. He starts to realise what is going on around him. Today, he realises that he is being made fun of as his colleagues are laughing at him, not with him. He doesn't race with Algernon any more. Charlie is clearly getting smarter.
Laboratory Report 8
Charlie starts to elaborate on both the Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Test. Charlie is starting to use big words in his progress report. He starts to read up a lot of books. He can scan a few sentenses at a time, while a normal person can take in only part by part.
Laboratory Report 9
Charlie can now type 75 words a minute and it is a remarkable rate. He is learning a lot at an astonishing rate! He can speak and write Chinese, Hebrew, Latin, Greek, German and many more. As Charlie getting to smart, it is not easy for him to get along with other people so he becomes an isolated person.
Laboratory Report 10
Algernon gets aggressive a week ago and died two days ago. Charlie is worried and he researches on our experiment. However, he is already deteriorating. He starts to lose his languages and he starts to get confused easily and has poor memory. He starts to get disorganised and cannot type anymore. Finally, he starts to go back into his original state. I have just heard, Charlie has already left this town.
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