Word: correct
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even if FDR's comment "Norman, I'm a damned sight better politician than you are," was correct, it is clear that the Socialist party's problems were not solely the product of failures on the part of its leadership. The ideological divisions and rivalries among the parties of the American Left, government repression, the superficially socialistic New Deal, and the advent of World War II constituted political obstacles that may well have been insurmountable. In any case, a sophisticated analysis of the Socialist Party's decline is a task more suited to an academic than to a biographer...
...studies similar to Burt's. Says Herrnstein, "I know of no correlation of Burt's which is seriously challenged in the literature." But Harvard's Richard Lewontin, a population geneticist, says that Burt's work with twins "is the only large study which is methodologically correct, so its loss is no trivial problem for the heritability people. It is also not nice for them to have this mess in their backyard...
...paper is primarily an organ of commentary. Often Ergo's interpretation of the correct libertarian line is so rigid that to other libertarians break with the paper. Lawrence White '77, president of Sons of Liberty, Harvard's libertarian group, calls the paper "too right wing." He explains that Ergo founds its philosophy on the thought of novelist Ayn Rand. As a youth, Rand saw the Bolsheviks take over Russia. Before she emigrated to the United States, the Bolsheviks killed both her parents, leaving her with a virulent anti-Communist streak...
Even though some adherents of the "hereditary influence" view admit that some of Burt's actual numerical data may have been falsified inadvertently, they still contend that his conclusions are correct...
...parole board, the criminal reform movement has been so understaffed, misdirected and politically compromised that any conclusions are premature and rest on inadequate data. As one Law Enforcement Assistance Administration official said last week, "Wilson can get away with that because no one really knows what is correct...