Word: dumber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Curt Stern, a geneticist at the University of California at Berkeley, it seems unreasonable to conclude that "because there is no evidence of inherent inequalities, the situation couldn't exist." Says University of Colorado Anthropologist John Greenway: "I would not want to say that an Australian Aborigine is dumber than I am, because there is no way to tell. In their noncompetitive society there is no way to make any tests and hence no way to make comparisons. We don't know what the differences are between different racial groups and there is a strong prejudice against finding...
...though he may act like a big deal, deep down he is a little schlemiel who can't even rob a grave without losing the body. Chased by cops and robbers, Caesar is saved at the final fade-out only by dumb luck and a dumber script...
There was one student at Yale who was even dumber than Cavett - a rich alumnus' son named Clarence. On a final exam, a multiple-choice question was posed...
...superintendent of schools in Boston, give no clue to a student's "gumption quotient." Moreover, it is not uncommon to find an error of ten points or more in many IQ scores. For example, a child with 120 may not necessarily be brighter than one with 110 or dumber than one with...
...Dumber & Dumber. In short, the schools are still failing those who need them most. School officials blame "cultural deprivation," the slum kid's lack of drive and books at home. As he falls behind in reading, he gets "dumber and dumber" in school. At Manhattan's High School of Commerce, for example, only one-fifth of this fall's entering tenth-graders read at ninth-grade level or above. "We do our best for our students," says Principal Murray Cohn, "but they just can't keep...