Word: iq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Acting as compelling as that comes partly from shrewd instinct, partly from careful planning. Beverly, whose IQ is 155, reads voluminously into the backgrounds of her roles and thinks them through imaginatively. Behind her pigeon-toed bumpkin in the first act of Manon, for example, lies this Sills analysis: "She was born with a good bosom and a shock of unusual-colored hair, whatever the color. She probably has gone barefoot all week except Sundays. Mama has probably caught her in the hayloft with one of the farm hands and decided that this kid is too much...
Academic freedom--and the accuracy of an article on IQ published by Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, in a recent issue of the Atlantic--will be discussed today at an SDS-University Action Group meeting with Edwin B. Newman, chairman of the Psychology Department...
Today's meeting follows an unsuccessful attempt Monday by SDS and UAG to meet with President Bok and demand that Herrnstein be fired for propogating "racist" theories about IQ. Both Bok and Herrnstein were invited to the discussion but declined to attend...
...members have regularly audited Herrnstein's "Introduction to Psychology" course, and asked questions pertaining to the implications of Herrnstein's thesis that IQ differences are overwhelmingly determined by heredity...
Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp applauded the decision, saying that it "recognized the relative ineffectiveness of IQ tests as a gauge of the development potential of a retarded child." The court order itself was agreed to by the state education authorities. It is the local school board, often lacking specialized teachers and proper equipment, that decides which children, if any, to exclude. Now it is up to the state to set basic educational policies and to require local authorities to meet them...