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Herrnstein further says I.Q. is substantially "heritable," but cites no evidence that distinguishes between inborn heritability on the one hand, and the passing on of family traits by training, on the other. A father with a Ph.D. will naturally encourage his child to read; one who never graduated from high school might even do the opposite. The two widely varying degrees of encouragement will surely show up on any I.Q. test, but does this mean the different scores were genetically determined? Surely not. Herrnstein dodges the issue completely...
...have been that I do not draw any racial conclusions. In everything I have written on the subject, I have been at pains to state that the question of population differences in I.Q. remains open, and so I state here. We cannot exclude by fiat the possibility of inborn I.Q. differences between all sorts of human groups--men and women; Democrats and Republicans; English and Italian; black and white and yellow and red--simply because we hope there are no such differences. Instead, we should bear in mind that if such differences are shown to exist, they are bound...
...Commentary, he openly advocates policy: "Many of the means and ends of contemporary social policy fail to take into account these biological constraints, and they may consequently misfire. Equalizing educational opportunity may have the unexpected and unwelcome effect of emphasizing the inborn intellectual differences among people. It may instead be better to diversify education, providing multiple pathways instead of just...
...disappears quickly as the liver adjusts to its new metabolic work load. William Lewis, born last Oct. 10 in New York City, was a rare example of a far more serious condition. His complexion remained abnormal. Even more frightening, his stools and urine indicated that he suffered from an inborn defect, biliary atresia-the absence or severe underdevelopment of tiny bile ducts emerging from the liver. William's case proved to be unusual in another respect: he was flown to Japan in the search for lifesaving corrective surgery...
...inborn sense of beat, or rhythm," says the superb cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, Bertolucci's collaborator since The Spider's Stratagem. Storaro douses Bertolucci's films in ravishing light-working, as many cinematographers do, from ideas in painting. He and Bertolucci drew their inspiration for Tango not only from Francis Bacon but also from Vermeer...