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...letter to the Editor of December 15, Richard Herrnstein has reached once again into his dusty bag of tricks, this time pulling forth that favorite of the high school debating team, the quotation-out-of-context. The passage from my article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (March, 1970), an article which I urge everyone to read, was designed, in its context, precisely to show that heritability must be referred to particular populations and, more important, that for the question of genetic differences between races, it really makes no difference what value of heritability you suppose for the white population...
President Bok announces that after 32 months in office, he has finally determined that he is not Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology. "But I don't think my record and my conscience can be fully clear," Bok adds, "until I manifest my willingness to entertain George Wald's identity compatible with my usual personality...
...failure of compensatory education, whether the heritability of I.Q. is .4 or .8, so I shall accept Jensen's rather high estimate without serious argument." [p. 11] I agree with Professor Lewontin's latter statement almost entirely and offer it as an answer to his former statement. R.J. Herrnstein Professor of Psychology
...Herrnstein is engaged in a bit of sleight-of-hand, in which he over and over again tried to dazzle us with that shining crystal "fact" of "high heritability of I.Q.," hypnotizing us into accepting his argument. I want, briefly, to break the spell by showing that the "high heritability of I.Q.," is a non-fact, at least in the context of discussion of social class, and that indeed such phrases as "I.Q.'s substantial heritability" or "the heritability of I.Q. is 80 per cent," despite their appearance as English, are actually scientifically meaningless garbage which have not been refuted...
...came to be made by a professor! Precisely the same error is made in arguments about the genetic inferiority of the working class. By referring over and over again to the "high heritability of I.Q.," as if I.Q. had a heritability which was a fixed property of the trait, Herrnstein completely obscures the fact that all measures of heritability of I.Q. are estimates of the heritability within social classes, and indeed within families to a very large extent. In no case ever reported is there an estimate of heritability that can be referred to the whole white population...