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Sanders and his Celtics teammates wooed Boston fans to the Garden for years with a run-and-shoot style of basketball, but the first-year mentor says a weak bench and "prohibitive lack of rebounding height" may force him to a more disciplined strategy...
...quantitative geneticist, of I.Q.'s substantial heritability, though there are countless allusions to such refutations or criticisms in articles like Dr. Benda's. The technical literature contains a veritable chorus of agreement on the fact that the I.Q. is heritable--not as heritable, let us say, as physical height, but more heritable than any other broad human psychological trait yet measured. Without a doubt, the confusion about I.Q.'s heritability is the controversy's most regrettable distortion. Geneticists who, in the technical literature, acknowledge I.Q.'s large genetic component refrain from adding their findings or judgments to the public debate...
...utterly fixed throughout one's life. In fact, I.Q. scores before about the age of five are not highly correlated with adult I.Q. With each passing year of childhood, the I.Q. converges more narrowly on the adult score. Precisely the same could be said about your height relative to your peers. A tall five-year-old may be somewhat more likely to grow up tall than a short five-year-old. However, the odds are still higher for a tall twelve-year-old. But who said any different? I know of no serious student of the subject who thinks...
...some experts say) components of intelligence. Nevertheless, the one-dimensional I.Q. continues to be the best single predictor of academic performance and one of the best single predictors of social status. The I.Q. is essentially a combination of many of the dimensions of intelligence, just as your height is essentially a combination of the vertical lengths of your feet, your shins, your knees and so on up to your head...
...said it would be the "height of disrespect [to the committee] to deliver in advance what my views are" and said he had tried in a speech on admissions Nov. 9 not to indicate his personal preferences...