Word: iq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...researcher says it is social IQ that counts...
...theory at least, Soviet schools avoid grouping pupils by ability. Says Malkova: "We are in principle against the IQ theory. We consider that every healthy child is capable of effectively mastering the school program." Even so, a few gifted or privileged students are selected for special schools...
...member of Mensa, a group of 33,000 people who have IQ scores in the top 2%, Graham first revealed his project last summer in an interview published in the Mensa Bulletin. He was seeking to place his Nobel sperm with bright women who were healthy, under 35 and preferably married to a sterile man. Two dozen wom en applied, and those who were chosen received physical descriptions of the anonymous Nobel donors-plus Graham's own assessments. "A very famous scientist," he wrote on the description of one of the five available mail-order fathers (to whom...
...bank called Cryobank and is a former adviser to Graham, says he saw "three or maybe four" Nobelists donating to the depository. "I see nothing extraordinary in all this," he adds. "It's quite normal for potential mothers to come in and ask for sperm with a high IQ...
...moral considerations? Among other things, says Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings, N.Y., Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences, the plan assumes that brighter is better, and that the Nobel Prize is a rough index to social usefulness. Says he: "There's no guarantee that high IQ people produce better people or a better society. It is not the retarded kids of the world who produce the wars and destruction." Graham's project may not even make good sense on its own terms. Nobel sperm may be bright, but the donors are usually far along...