Word: iq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, is author of IQ and the Meritocracy...
...Freedom of speech" cannot be invoked to defend William Shockley against those who forced the cancellation of his debate with Roy Innis. Professor Shockley has been given much freedom--in media groups--to state a theory based on the most meager data relating IQ to race. The theory has been discussed again and again with no major addition or revision of the data, to the point where objections by serious geneticists are grouped under "opponents of Shockley's theory" or "alternative explanations...
...mindless and abusive rhetoric of their pamphlet manifests some of the most insidious tactics of demogoguery: they use the Shockley position as a jumping off place for uneducated polemic on IQ tests, presenting ethnic groups as victims of IQ test discrimination. This is a blatantly politick ruse to gain the sympathy of the reader through his ethnic loyalties...
FORTY PER CENT of the pre-school age children in the slums of Santiago, Chile have IQ's of less than 80, their minds stunted by malnutrition. One-third of those who die each year in Chile are children. When Dr. Salvador Allende's Popular Unity Government took office in late 1970, one of its slogans was, "The only privileged ones will be the children...
...researchers observed two groups in nine color-coordinated rooms. During the same period, a separate control group played in a conventional kindergarten. After six months, the experimental groups, who had played in "beautifully" colored rooms with "beautifully" colored building blocks, had outstripped the controls by an average of 15 IQ points, even though the children in the control group had started out with slightly higher intelligence scores. After 18 months the experimental group was 25 points ahead...