Word: iq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kamin has demonstrated other problems with the twin studies, including haphazard testing procedures, failure to control for age and sex, and selective rejection of unfavorable data. Finally, the technique of analysis of variance depends on the dubious assumption that environment and heredity act independently upon IQ...
...strong association among IQ, educational attainment, and social class feeds the popular myth that American society is a "meritocracy" in which the intelligent and industrious rise...
...recent article, however, Bowles and Gintis "partialed out" the effects of these three factors on economic success. While class background and education strongly predicted economic success, IQ alone contributed almost nothing to success...
...summary, Herrnstein has not shown that IQ measures intelligence. Even assuming that IQ does measure intelligence, he has not shown that IQ is inherited. And even assuming that IQ is an inherited measure of intelligence, he has not shown that success depends upon high IQ. Thus, he has not given the slightest credence to his conclusion that social standing is based on inherited differences in intelligence...
...professional journals and refuses "ever again" to discuss his theory in public. Herrnstein has repeatedly denied social policy implications drawn from his description of a "less endowed" lower class. He reasserts in Commentary that any criticism is a misrepresentation: "Not many of my critics seemed to have read it ['IQ']. Perhaps not many people at all read it; it was, after all, rather long and tough going in spots. There seemed, in fact, to be a pattern: Those who gave clear signs of having read it rarely got excited, while those who got excited usually had not read it." Herrnstein...