Word: hernnstein
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...Hernnstein's article maintains that intelligence is 80 per cent hereditary, and that the I.Q. test is an adequate test of intelligence...
Alan J. Garfinkel, a graduate student and UAG member, opposed Newman, and said Hernnstein's article was "hardline racism, but more palitable to the community" since it gives the public a statistical basis for prejudice...
Herrnstein noted that his use of the statistics was different from Jensen's. Whereas Jensen was trying to determine the nature of the differences in biracial I.Q., Hernnstein was interested in the role I.Q. played in social standing...
...Hernnstein said that the predicted problem of chronically unemployed workers could be handled "benevolently. To tell you the truth, I'm really out of my field in this area. All I was trying to do was to show the way I saw things going and what might be realistic to expect in the future...