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...every age, egalitarians have pursued the ideal of a classless society achieved through freedom of opportunity. Now a Harvard professor of psychology has branded the ideal a chimera. On the contrary, says Richard Herrnstein, educational equality and unrestricted social mobility will lead to a stratified society of hereditary castes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Is Equality Bad for You? | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

Reviewing a century of research, Herrnstein concludes in the September Atlantic that intelligence is largely hereditary, that I.Q. influences social status, and that the nation already has a high-I.Q. ruling class and a lower class with I.Q.s below average. He believes, moreover, that the differences will become sharper. The better the U.S. succeeds in letting each man reach the level of his ability, says Herrnstein, the more will wealth and prestige be concentrated at the top. At the bottom, he predicts, will remain a human residue "that may be unable to master the common occupations" and were probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Is Equality Bad for You? | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...opting for the Project Chairman Brooks is dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. which receives over 60 per cent of its research money from the Defense Department. Members of both the Psychology Department and the Center for the Behavioral Sciences-headed by subcommittee members Richard J. Herrnstein and Edward L. Pattntlo. respectively-are applying to the Cambridge Project for funding...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: Faculty Had to Fight to Discuss Defense-Tied Cambridge Project | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...question of official participation on the policy board "is largely a false issue," Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, added...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: College, GSAS Community To Use Cambridge Project | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

...Faculty will discuss the Project either at a special meeting this month or at its regular January meeting. Brooks said last night that he was "somewhat disturbed at the way the Project was held over" by the Faculty: both he and Herrnstein referred to the Harvard people who have refrained from participating in the Project since its beginning last June as "good soldiers...

Author: By Jeff Magalif, | Title: College, GSAS Community To Use Cambridge Project | 12/3/1969 | See Source »

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