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Watson cites a study he made of black West Indian students at an interracial secondary school in East Ham, a London working-class neighborhood. When the examination was correctly identified as an IQ test, the students scored an average of ten points lower than when the exercise was falsely described as an experiment to help plan curriculum. Watson, who is white, also found that scores typically climbed when the IQ test-identified as such-was given by his assistant, "a very black West Indian Negro...
...East Ham study got its inspiration from earlier work by an American psychologist, Irwin Katz, now at the Graduate Center of New York's City University. Katz devised a series of experiments to determine, among other things, the effect on IQ performance of being black in a white-dominated society. As in East Ham, Katz's black subjects did better when they were deceived into believing that their intelligence was not being tested-that is, when the test was described as a simple drill in eye-hand coordination. In fact, when they were freed of anxiety about intellectual...
...airpstrek (abstract). At lunchtime in the campus canteen, the visitor may hear a local student ask: "Gottiny semmitches?" "Air," says the counter girl. "Emeny jiwant?" Student: "Gimme utter martyr and an airman pickle." Thanks to the mare chick of communications, the girl duly produces a tomato and a ham and pickle sandwich...
...Ham in the Papers. Miss Mitford reports that when she spoke to guiding faculty members about the ads, they "seemed astonished, even pained, to think people might be naive enough to take the advertising at face value." She quotes Cerf: "If anyone thinks we've got time to look at the aptitude tests that come in, they're out of their mind!" And Faith Baldwin: "Anyone with common sense would know that the 15 of us are much too busy to read the manuscripts the students send in." And Cerf again, on mail-order selling in general...
...carry on. Meanwhile, and regardless, I am putting questions to fellers: and regardless of the unanswerable what is truth? . . . Maybe, damme, all humans -the Shem, Ham and Japheth-just like you say, come from one branched-off source: our Grand-dad chimpanzee, our gorilla grandma, and the orang-patriarch. O.K. and granted. But sans sense, primates, and progeny of puny primates! Why bite one another now, though your ancestors might have? Répondez s'il vous plait! man hunting man! Ach, mein Gott! are human beings fools or what? In the interim . . . while I wait, and you tell...