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Lewontin and his co-authors point out that ostensibly objective studies such as those done by Burt are merely tools which these scientists use to confirm a racist and sexist status quo. Biological determinism is just as subjective as any political theory, Lewontin asserts, and must be considered as such. He writes...
Point by point, the authors of Not in Our Genes shoot down the traditional studies which confirm existing social conditions. Cyril Burt's often-quoted identical twin studies, conducted in the 1950s, supposedly proved the inhabitability of IQ. Those who would later argue for a meritocracy based on IQ--such as Arthur Jensen, in his famous and influential article on the subject in the Harvard Educational Review published in 1969--drew upon Burt's data. But Lewontin and his cohorts point out the fraudulence of Burt's evidence. Not only are there serious problems with the validity of these separated...
...people are overpaid, some are underpaid, and some are paid just right. In America, the marketplace ultimately makes that decision, whether we are talking about corporate chiefs, centerfielders, goalies, golfers or rock stars. The negative comments recently launched by overpaid professors, junior investigative reporters and underpaid Government officials would confirm that everyone in America does not believe in free enterprise. Fortunately, most shareholders...
...Chinese troops rushed across the frontier, low-level skirmishes between the Communist adversaries have been a springtime ritual. Although wildly conflicting reports from Hanoi and Peking have obscured the real extent of this year's fighting, the sheer volume of the competing claims and counterclaims appears to confirm that the situation has seriously deteriorated. Only last week, the Vietnamese claimed they had killed or wounded hundreds of Chinese troops in the border province of Ha Tuyen...
...Angeles Philharmonic to succeed Carlo Maria Giulini as its music director beginning in January 1986. Previn's departure from Pittsburgh was sealed when he lost an ugly power struggle with Managing Director Marshall Turkin over the orchestra's artistic direction, a rupture that Previn declines to confirm. "To lose a job is one thing, but to keep your manners has to be done at the same time," says the Berlin-born, California-bred Previn, who previously led the London Symphony for eleven years. He was promptly snapped up by Ernest Fleischmann, the executive director in Los Angeles...