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...Effort. The buildings that colleges are now producing do more than smite the eye. They also appeal to the intellect. But how well do they serve their users? The answer comes only with time. In the past, bold buildings by renowned designers have opened on college campuses to resounding applause from other architects-and then have earned the dislike of students and faculty...
...flaws of any intelligence test is that it does not, and cannot, take into account the mood of the person whose intellect is being evaluated. Educational psychologists have long known that attitude can have a pronounced effect on the score. The same person, retested, may raise or lower his IQ by as many as 20 points depending on how he feels-challenged, anxious, bored. Even his feelings toward the person giving the test can be a factor. In the case of the black student, writes British Psychologist Peter Watson in New Society magazine, this variation is of great significance...
Academic Storm. The findings by Katz and Watson undermine the notion that race and intellect can be glibly linked. They also challenge the hypothesis of Berkeley Psychologist Arthur R. Jensen that in some forms of intelligence the Negro is genetically doomed to a lower position than the white. This proposition, published last year in the Harvard Educational Review, provoked an academic storm that has yet to subside...
Neither Watson nor Katz denies that intelligence is in part hereditary. They say only that until the science of genetics develops more precise instruments, there is no sure way to measure heredity's contribution to human intelligence. Consequently, hypotheses about the effect of race on intellect remain unproved...
Does this unreported aftermath jeopardize the validity of the book? Perhaps. Read closely, however; all the later developments are there, at least potentially. Here is a man who is obviously one of the great surgeons of any time, a searching, pioneering intellect who questioned accepted practice, a man with a mind like a scalpel-no more or less attractive. As an account of genius, the book tells it like it is. As an account of personality, it tells more than Barnard probably intended. Either way, it is a fascinating report from that shadowy land of the pioneer...