Word: iq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Earnings and prestige depend largely upon IQ...
...true that "the measurement of intelligence is psychology's most telling accomplishment?" Herrnstein answers by pointing out how well IQ tests work: "Rarely did a bright child, as judged by the adults around him, score poorly, and rarely did a poor scorer seem otherwise bright...
...which children do adults judge to be bright? In a well-known study, Rosenthal and Jacobson told teachers that a group of primary-school children, in fact randomly selected, were "spurters" of high intellectual potential. Because of the teachers' expectations, these children ended the year with higher IQ s than the "non-spurters...
...What IQ tests do, to a large extent, is to label as "bright" or "dull" those children who do or do not meet capitalist society's "expectations": expectations conditioned by racial prejudice and class background, among other factors...
...Herrnstein's (and Jensen's) figure of .8 heritability for IQ comes almost entirely from a review of studies of identical twins reared apart. Since such twins have the same genes, any variation in IQ must be due to environment. Thus, it is imperative that the twins be raised in independent surroundings if any general conclusions are to be drawn...