Word: ersatz
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...November 27 issue of The Crimson, under the title "The Ersatz Controversy," Richard Herrnstein has once again repeated the litany of "I.Q.'s substantial heritability" and "estimates of I.Q.'s genetic ingredient" that has become such a part of the popular journalism on this issue. In this particular piece Herrnstein tells us that he knows of "no published technical refutation, nor even of any major criticism, by a quantitative geneticist" of I.Q.'s substantial heritability. Since his argument about genetics and social class is deeply rooted in his repeated assertion that I.Q. is highly heritable (80 per cent...
...unjustified conclusions have been drawn from this perversion by mystification, arbitrary redefinition of terms and misdirection of attention. There has been no refutation in the technical literature because the technical literature is not devoted to correcting the misapplication of science by amateur publicists. What we have is not an "Ersatz Controversy," but a real controversy affecting the lives of millions of people, created by the purveyors of an ersatz science...
...there, then, really a controversy on I.Q.? There is clearly a good deal of agitation, but is there counterevidence instead of emotion, fact instead of fantasy, reasoned dispute instead of vituperation? Not much, it seems. The proper message to extract from the ersatz controversy on I.Q. is that many people are not yet ready or willing to hear the news about human differences, because they fear it will be bad. It is unlikely to be as bad as they fear, but it does challenge common egalitarian visions of the good society. The real news--rather than what you've been...
...Messing had had a better team in front of him. Kidder must have been unbearably tempted to play goal as Messing had, to move easily in the crease and depend on sheer coordination to stop the ball. But there was absolutely no way Kidder could have been an ersatz Messing, and he was smart enough to know it. In fact, it is Kidder's brains in general that have made him into a great goalie, a better goalie than Shep Messing...
...lands around it, the state fair is big business now. Seeking to lure people away from their TV sets, the State Fair Board spent $1.3 million to give a showbiz touch to the event. This year's theme is Hawaii, and so lots of the girls appear in ersatz Hawaiian print dresses. Ordinary sno-cones become "Hawaiian delights," and the entrance to the fairgrounds is crowned by wooden cutout pineapples. Fair Director Fulk offers a rationale: "People in the islands eat a lot of pork, and Iowa is a big producer of pork, so we should know all about...