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...Crime and Human Nature," R. J. Herrnstein and James Q. Wilson...
...Bowerstock's proposals pass, students may well find a senior faculty member leading their next tutorial. As Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, said recently, "It's time to re-capture the Faculty...
Reaction to the article was varied. Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology and a supporter of the genetic theory of IQ, said yesterday "nothing at all has changed" in the area of IQ study since Burt's evidence was discredited...
...Herrnstein said that while Dorfman's article was "generally quite good," Dorfman overlooked Burt's admission that he had "normalized" his data. "Normalizing data as Burt did is not unusual when you aren't working with standardized IQ tests," Herrnstein added...
...children, for example, can change 17 points to 20 points up or down before the age of 18, and there is sometimes a marked change from one year to the next. Many experts even question how much IQ scores have to do with intelligence. Few support Harvard Psychologist Richard Herrnstein's position that intelligence is primarily an innate ability, rather than an evolving capacity resulting from the interplay of mental quickness and environmental conditioning. It is also possible that such personal traits as drive and persistence-factors that IQ tests cannot measure-are as important as inherent reasoning ability...