Word: iq
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days. "In some respects, it made me an orphan." The demands of the store cut him off from his parents; Isaac's behavior severed him from his contemporaries. For he was not only brighter than his older classmates, he was eager to make them aware of his stratospheric IQ...
Herrnstein said that while Dorfman's article was "generally quite good," Dorfman overlooked Burt's admission that he had "normalized" his data. "Normalizing data as Burt did is not unusual when you aren't working with standardized IQ tests," Herrnstein added...
Richard C. Lewontin '50, professor of Biology, said yesterday "The case is airtight, Burt was a fraud in many ways." He added that "all this nonsense about IQ and heredity" depended on Burt's evidence. "That they were fraudulent was to be expected," Lewontin said...
Jencks added that the U.S. studies do not accord genetic factors as much of a role in determining IQ as Burt's study...
William Shockley, author of a controversial theory that correlates IQ with race, said yesterday "the American intellectual community" has demonstrated "profound intellectual irresponsibility" on this issue. He added that while "Dorfman has done a sound piece of work," his conclusion is "not entirely warranted...