Word: iq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Herrnstein had responded to just such charges in an article published in the April issue of Commentary magazine. The article, entitled "On Challenging an Orthodoxy," attacks the "environmentalist doctrine that dominates both our education and our attitudes toward social policy," defends Herrnstein's controversial views on IQ and meritocracy, and describes with some distaste the reaction and tactics of his critics...
...action was provoked by an article written by Herrnstein, "On Challenging an Orthodoxy," which appeared in the April issue of Commentary magazine. In it, Herrnstein defends his controversial views on IQ and meritocracy, criticizes the dominance of environmental influence in social theory, and describes with some distaste the reaction and tactics of his critics [see sidebar, right...
...MENTALLY RETARDED especially, this change in terminology means a vast change in philosophy. "Under the old system, retarded children were classified as either trainable or educable according to their IQ's," Kaufmann said. "However, that left a vast body of children who were called either ineducable or untrainable, and for whom nothing was done...
Just about the only area where they had not made much progress was sex. Oh, it had been tried. There was that scheme in 1980 under which each family in Europe was to be allocated permits for a certain number of children, and which compelled everyone with an IQ of less than 100 to be sterilized. The IQ tests, of course, were to be administered by computers. There had been an enormous row about it in the European Parliament, and the proposal had been only narrowly defeated...
Jencks also states in Inequality that IQ scores, genes and the quality of school education have little effect on the future economic success of individuals...