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About seven members of Harvard-Radcliffe Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) leafletted yesterday outside the first meeting of Social Sciences 15, an introductory psychology course taught by Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of psychology...
Furthermore, aside from his own predictions, Herrnstein is quite candid about his ignorance of specific social problems and their possible solutions...
What is questionable is the undifferentiated attitude he takes toward what is fact and what is philosophy. Herrnstein talks of equality of opportunity as if we were fast approaching the ideal liberal state...
...this confusion which leads Herrnstein to parade speculations about chronic technological unemployment as facts--when they're only beginning to be investigated...
...while Herrnstein has definitely not proven that American society is fast becoming a meritocracy, he had carefully shown why the genetic component of I.Q. must be considered a factor in the formulation of social policy...